Prima Secundae
Lecture 267: Tabernacle Furnishings and the Seven Feasts of Israel

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of the what law christ is signified to the candelabra because he himself said i am the light of the world and now through the seven lanterns huh the seven gifts of the holy spirit he is signified through the table because he is the spiritual food going to that of john six i am the living bread right now and the twelve bread signified the twelve apostles or his what teaching when thomas gets through there at the end of the uh first book of the uh compendium of theology right you know he's going through the the whole of the trinity i mean the whole uh creed you know and then he says well how many articles are there right and he gives it two ways of dividing up it's either 14 or another way dividing 12 right now so let's put doctrine there huh it's kind of the apostolic doctrine too right they're being 12 apostles right now 12 tribes of israel and so on so he says the 12 bread signified the 12 apostles right or their doctrine right now that's what it is you know the thomas explaining the the symbolum postulorum he calls it huh we call it the apostle's creed right and sometimes they divide it into 12 articles sometimes they divide them into 14. what's the what's the latin there for teaching teaching doctrine doctrine doctrine or through the candelabra and the table can be signified the teaching and faith of the church which also illumine and enlighten and spiritually refresh us christ himself is signified to the two-fold altar of the holocaust and the what incense because to him is necessary for us to offer all the works of the virtues to god either those by which we afflict the flesh which are offered as it were on the altar of the holocaust and or those which with the greater perfection of mind we what offered the spiritual desires of the perfect time the offer to god as it were on the altar of incense according to that of hebrews chapter last chapter per ipsum ergo offeramus to him therefore we offer the host of praise always to god on your exam not least one of these is is very deep maybe but there's so many of them right if you read the old testament then you go back to this text then you go back to reading it then it comes kind of alive huh all these things it's kind of hard for a philosopher to elaborate upon these things okay now we can go on to the reply to the seventh objection didn't know what you're getting into did you to the seventh therefore it should be said that the lord commanded the altar to be constructed for sacrifices and offering gifts in honor of god and for the sustaining of the ministers who served the what tabernacle or the temple now about the construction of the altar that was given by god a two-fold precept or command one in the beginning of the law in exodus chapter 20 where the lord commanded that they make an altar of what earth on the terra or at least of what stones not what and again that they do not make an altar that is high to which is necessary to ascend by what steps and this for detesting the cult of idolatry for the gentiles constructed altars for their idols that were ornate and sublime in which they believe something of what sanctity and mystery i guess to be an account of which also the lord commanded deuteronomy 16 you will not plant a what yeah next to the altar of the lord your god for the idolaters were custom to sacrifice into the trees what's the name of those guys that you had in england there the old days yeah the near tab of the trees aren't they a lot yeah yeah an account of their you know griebleness and and uh umbusitatama they're being shading huh okay doing this shady stuff going on okay uh of which precepts there was a figurative what reason right then because in christ who is our altar right we ought to confess the true nature of what flesh as regards his what humanity which is to make an altar of what earth it's the element that birth air fire and water on earth is the element that that predominates in our body right and as regards divinity we ought to in him confess equality of the father right which is not to ascend by steps to the altar that's very subtle huh nor should we according to christ admit the teaching of the gentiles uh that provokes one to what lust but having constructed the tabernacle with attempt to the honor of god they were not what fearful of these being occasions of what idolatry and therefore god commanded that they make an altar of what the holocaust from what that bronze is it what brass okay which was a conspicuous to all the people in an altar of what incense of gold which only the priests saw right now why for it was not the precious the preciousness uh such preciousness of bronze or brass that through this the people would be provoked idolatry well what did they do when they came down didn't they come down the mountain and and when adam i mean adam was up the mountain when he came down they had constructed they what it wasn't gold isn't it yeah yeah so i mean you know if you're going to worship this thing you better have a gold one right but just just brass i mean well that's and it's kind of striking if the one that i guess was gold right the one that they had constructed and his they melted down there and this is all the jewelry they had yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean you know but this is a worthy thing to worship right by the adult for the idolater you know you know this gold thing and you know the greeks have gold statues and i don't know so the priests can see the you know the golden thing but not the the multitude right you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing and you know the gold thing subject to idolatry right now give them a plain brass and because exodus 20 is laid down as a reason for this precept you should not ascend by steps to my altar lest your what ugliness be revealed right okay it should be considered this also was instituted to excluding what idolatry right now for in sakris priyapi this is terrible stuff here the suapudenda right I guess the sexual parts right we're shown to the people right now this is filthy right okay and therefore he goes on to say without danger right one could institutes such a altitude of altar that to some what wooden steps outstanding but portable in the our sacrifices the priests would ascend to offering the what sacrifices so now we go back to the colors here right and the reply to the eighth objection to the eighth it should be said that the body of the tabernacle but how do you translate tabernacle did it translate it by tenter yeah I guess originally it's got the idea of the tent right so we used to have the thing around the tabernacle right to make it look a little bit like a tent and to make us recall right that the body of the tabernacle constituted from certain what tables erected in their length right and which were what covered by certain what curtains yeah from four what various colors right and the first one is what it's so retorted out is that mm-hmm okay and hyacinth right and purple and cockle quay yeah yeah this tincto twice this twice so you get the word bicycle I guess this this bicycle this tincto but these what curtains uh covered only the what sides of the tabernacle in on the roof of the tabernacle there is a cover from what hyacinth skins and above that from skins of the what rams that were what red ruby I forgot what the what rubik's beans what does that mean in the church there rubik's it's written in red yeah the directions in red yeah what you say was in black yeah yeah yeah and and above this third certain what sagis what is that sagis goat's hair yeah okay which not only covered the roof of the tabernacle but also came down upon the earth and covered the what tables the tabernacle on the outside now now these what currents the literal reason in common was the what ornate protection the tabernacle right it might be had in reverence right but in special according to some uh through the what to the cortinas the the curtains yeah are designated the chelung sidereum right these one which the stars are which is varied by diverse what stars huh through the what saga the uh the waters which are above the firmamenta right huh that's always a uh question what those waters are supposed to mean right scripture through the uh red uh skins the imperium chelung right that's where we're going after we're dead right we've been in chelung imperium for a bit good in which are the angels right huh and through the hyacinth skins the chelung of the holy trinity huh and those all in dante now or what those different heavens huh thomas talks about them in various places the figurative reason of these things is because through the tables from which are constructed the tabernacle are signified the what faithful of christ from which are constructed the what church okay that's a common thing right now you know we compare the uh christians to the the bricks or whatever it is in the church is constructed from right the uh interior tables are covered by the what curtains quadricoloribus for the four colors right huh because the faithful inwardly are what adorned with four what virtues huh four in the what it's a gloss said it signified what caro flesh um with chastity right shining with chastity yeah well christ's body is what it was in christ's body wrapped in in linen was it see and that's why they say they use linen on the on the altar even today right in hyacinth the mind what desiring higher things right superna in purple rock and the purple ones i guess the what flesh being subject to the passions and sufferings i guess and in the cocoa distinct oh and the what is that the yeah the mind between the passions of god and the love of one's neighbor is shining on prefulgians through the carvings of the roof where designated the products and the doctors you know talking from the roof let's be said in there in which when not to what uh yeah the celestial conversation right which is signified through the hyacinth skins the promptitude for martyred martyrdom which is signified by the redskins in the austerity of life and the tolerance of adversities you signified through the uh was it the sagas so this thing yeah that's yeah which were uh exposed to the winds right into the rains is the gloss says all these guys running around in the religious ages you know giving these explanations you know you go to saint victor and so on it's got a big thing on the ark isn't it okay boy that's that was the eighth of an hour after they had known of marriage the lord deliver us to the ninth it should be said that the sanctification of the tabernacle and of the vases has a what little clause right so that they might be had in more what reverence huh because through this consecration of the sort they are what given over to the divine worship but the figurative reason is because through this sanctification signified the spiritual sanctification of the living tabernacle, of the, what, faith from which is constituted the Church of Christ. We had a feast not so long ago, was it, the Lateran, you know, and that has that double signification, right? And not just, you know, commemorating that building, right, but you're commemorating what goes on in the building and the people make up the church, right? At first you're kind of surprised when you see that, you know, by the commemorating Yeah, yeah, but there's a number of those feasts there in the calendar, you know, Mary Major, Mary Major, isn't there one? I mean, the Lateran was the headquarters, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, got a number of Lateran treatises, right, I mean, the number of, yeah, yeah, Thomas has an exposition on the, one of them, part of one of them, anyway, Fourth Lateran Council, right, that's quite a, quite a good council, impressive, okay, okay, now, to the tenth one, right, huh? He's going to go to, this is very interesting, talking about the solemnities, right, huh? Very interesting what he says here. To the tenth it should be said that in the old law there were seven temporal solemnities, huh, and one, what, continuously, as can be gathered from Numbers 28 and 29, so for your homework you can read Numbers 28 and 29. There was, as it were, a continual feast, because daily, right, morning and night, huh? A lamb, poor lambs were, what, sacrificed, huh? You see, you see those, the advertisements of, of, of, filet, on Chick, Chick-fil-A, restaurant, huh? They used to have a picture of a, of a cow, you know, saying, you know, eat chicken, eat chicken, you know? Yeah, that's very clever, you know, huh, you know? And they were sponsoring one of the, I don't know, yeah, yeah. They're a good company, too, you know, they've been involved in conflict with the administration. And through this continual feast, you might say, right, huh, of a, uh, yuji-sa, sacrifice, what's the word, yuji-sa, is represented in the perpetuity of the divine, what, beatitude, huh? Thomas, at the end of the first book of the Summa Congentia, as he talks about the divine beatitude, right, shows that God is beatus, you know, and then these, his singular way is beatus, right, and he's beatitude itself, right? And therefore, no one could be more happy than he is, huh? It's happiness itself, you might say, to use the English word, huh? Now, of the temporal feasts, right, as opposed, I suppose, to the, what, continuous one, right, huh? The first was, what, completed, or repeated, right, each seventh day, right, huh? And this was the solemnity of the Sabbath, right, which was celebrated in memory of the creation of things, huh, as has been said above, huh, back in question 100, I guess, okay? Another solemnity that was repeated each, what, month, huh, the feast of the Neomene, I guess that means the new, the new moon, right, which was celebrated for the commemoration of the work of the divine, what, governing, right? Now, I was mentioning before how God says in the apocalypse, right, I am the alpha and the omega, right, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, right, huh? And when Thomas writes the Summa Cana Gentiles, huh, the first book is about God in himself or by himself, the second about God is the beginning of things, and the third book about God is the end of things, right, but in the second book he would take up, what, what he said before about the Sabbath, right, huh, take up creation, right, in the second book, and God's the beginning, in the beginning God made heaven and earth, and then the divine governing would come up in the, what, third book, right, because the governing is moving things and directing them towards God is the end of the whole universe, huh, okay, but Thomas, you know, says, these lower things are especially varied according to the motion of the, what, moon, right, huh, I guess that's where Galileo was mistaken, right, he didn't realize that the moon was the cause of the tide, so the medievals were ahead of him, right, because they knew much about this, huh, in fact they had a lot of water too in it, you know, and that's why you could influence in a bad way by the moon, right, and become a lunatic, you know, you know, because of the moon's influence over water, right, and so this feast was celebrated in the newness of the moon, right, but notice that fits the idea of the divine governance because we use the word motion or mover more of that, right, when we speak of God as being the creator, we speak of him being the, what, the maker, so we say in English, you know, God made heaven and earth, right, but then when we talk about God's governing, he's moving things towards himself as the end, you call him the mover, right, well the moon moon is, what, a big mover, and you can see that by the fact that it, you know, influences the coming in and going out of the tides, right, and so on, okay, so he says these lower things are especially varied according to the motion of the moon, and therefore this feast is celebrated in the newness of the moon, right, but not, however, in the fullness of it, not when you get a full moon to avoid the, what, worship of the idolaters, right, you know, we had the dog, you know, yelling at the, they said dogs, they yell at the moon, right, you know, and the full moon, right, and the idolaters would worship the full moon, right, so they would do it at the beginning of the moon, right, who in such time of the moon they sacrificed, huh, now you see, it's these two benefits, right, that God creates us, right, he created your immortal soul, right, your immortal soul didn't come from your mother and father, right, huh, and even Aristotle knew this, huh, interesting, huh, Aristotle in the book on the generation of animals, right, he knows that, huh, he says that the human soul didn't come from the parents, it's kind of interesting Aristotle saw that, huh, okay, so we're created by God, huh, our mortal soul, um, and we're governed by God, right, huh, and these two benefits, he says, are common to the, what, whole human race, and therefore, frequentios, right, they are, what, repeated, one, once every week, and once every, what, month, huh, I guess the word month comes from the word moon, doesn't it, now, he spoke of seven feasts, right, huh, which are not, seven feasts that are not daily, right, huh, seven, uh, um, the other five feasts were celebrated once in the year, right, huh, and they're recalling more, what, benefits specially shown to that people, right, huh, okay, so the other two were to the whole human race, right, huh, but these other five are, are not as common, right, not weekly or monthly, but just once a year, right, huh, so there is celebrated the feast of the, what, the Passover, right, in the first month to commemorate the benefit of liberation from, what, Egypt, huh. They celebrated the Feast of Pentecost after 50 days to recall the benefit of the law given. The other three feasts were celebrated in the seventh month, which was, as it were, the whole month almost was solemn, right? Just as the seventh day is. In the first day of the seventh month was the Feast of what? Trumpets, yeah. To borrow, huh? In memory of the liberation of Isaac, when Abraham found the ram held by the horns, which they represent by the horns by which they, what? They made a lot of noise that day, huh? Now, the Feast of the Horns was, as it were, an invitation and prepared them for the following feast, right, which was celebrated on the, what? Yeah. So the Feast of the Tubas was on the first day of the month, huh? And then on the, what? Tenth day, I guess, huh? The Feast of the, what? Expiation. Expiation. In memory of that benefit which God, right, forgave, I guess, huh? The sin of the people in the adoration of the, what? Calf. That's it. At the Golden Calf, I guess, huh? I mean, at the prayers of, what? Moses, huh? Okay. The prayers of Moses. And after this was celebrated the, what? Feast of the Tabernacles, right, huh? For seven days, huh? Commemorating the benefit of the divine protection and leading through the desert, right, huh? Where they dwelt in, what? Tents, huh? Once in this feast, huh, they ought to have the fruit of the, what? Tree that's most beautiful. And that's the, what? Yeah, it says, it has citrum, he says, huh? And the wood of the dense, what? That is, yeah, which are odiferous, right? And the, what? And the, what? The wills of the wood. Yeah. Which long remain there, keep their, what? Vigor, right? It's a long time. And these were found in the land of promise, right? To signify that through the arid desert, the land of the desert, that God led them to a most delicious land, flowing in milk and honey. My, my grandchildren has some kind of a play there. Because they named one of the cows, the milk cows, honey, right? So they said, milk and honey, you know. It's kind of, I forget what that kind of says, you know. But I forgot a little saying about it. Milk for money. In the eighth day, they celebrated another feast, namely the, what? Yeah. In which they collected from the people those things which are necessary for the expenses of the divine worship, right? And signified the uniting of the people and the peace, huh? Restored upon them in the land of what promise. Now, these, that's the, I guess that's the literal, literal one. Now, the figurative reason of these feasts is because through the daily sacrifice of the lamb is figured the perpetuity of what? Christ, who is the lamb of, what? God, huh? According to that of Hebrews, the last chapter, Jesus Christ, today and tomorrow and so on and forever. Through the Sabbath is signified the spiritual rest given to us through Christ, about which it is spoken in Hebrews chapter four. Through the new moon, huh? The new medium, which is the beginning of the new moon, is signified the enlightenment of the, what? Primitive church through Christ. Preaching and, what? Making miracles. Through the feast of Pentecost, it signified the descent of the Holy Spirit and the apostles. So we celebrate that, huh? Through the feast of the, what? Tubas, huh? Tubas, the horns, I guess they're, what do you call it, the trumpets or something? It signified the preaching of the apostles, huh? Through the feast of the expiation, it signified the cleansing from sins of the Christian people, right? Through the feast of the tabernacles, their journey, right, in this world in which they walk progressing in the virtues, right? Through the feast of, what? Yeah, it signified the congregation of the faithful in the kingdom of the, what? Heavens. And therefore that feast is said to be most, what? Holy, huh? And notice what Thomas says here in the last line here, this article. And these three feasts were continuous to each other, right? Because it's necessary for those expiated from vices that they progress in virtue until they arrive at the vision of God, as is said in Psalm 83, right, huh? Okay. But don't you have the same three here in the way that Augustine and Thomas, following Augustine, divides the Psalms? Do you remember that in the beginning of Thomas' commentary on the Psalms there? He discusses a number of ways he divides the Psalms, right? And he rejects all of them except the one that Augustine gives, right? Now you have to use the correct numbering, you know, which we used to be called the Catholic numbering, right? And Augustine looks at the 50th Psalm and the 100th Psalm and the 150th Psalm, right? And he sees the 50th Psalm as characterizing the whole first 50 Psalms as a group, right? And the 100th Psalm as what? Signifying what the second 50 are about as a group, right? And then what predominates in that group, right? And then the 150th, what predominates in the last 50, right? Well, what are these, right, huh? And they correspond to three stages of the Christian life, right, huh? In the beginning, you're fighting your vices in your sins, right, huh? And the 50th Psalm is a psalm of what? Repentance, huh? This is the favorite psalm, I guess, of Teresa of Avila, of all people, right, huh? So it's very much attached to that 50th Psalm. And then the second stage is where you're trying to make progress in the virtues right now, huh? See, now this is not upon getting rid of your sins because you've already done that first, right? Now you're trying to advance in goodness and going from virtue to virtue, right? And so the 100th Psalm is a psalm about good deeds and progressing in the virtues, right? Okay? And then the third group, the last 50 psalms, the 50th Psalm, of course, is one resting in God, right, huh? And this is now the third stage, right? Where you rest in God, huh? I was mentioning how I was talking to a nun one time and she's kind of describing their week or what they do and days and so on and so on. And then on Sunday she says, we just rest in the Lord. That's a beautiful way of putting it, you know, huh? Rest in the Lord, huh? But that's what the last 50 psalms are about, right? The beautiful psalms, you know? And so, you know, Thomas' commentary on the psalms, he only got up to, what, 53, I guess? But you can see, you know, as he goes through the first 50, right, you know, how Dustin has hit the nail on the head there, you know? But that's the same three things that you have here, right? It's beautiful. Expiato servicis. Expiated from vices and your sins. His sins progress in virtue until we arrive at the vision of God, right? Which is going to be very restful. As you were still saying in the seventh book of the physics there, you know, the soul coming to rest understands. I mean, you understand God, you see God face to face, and your soul will come to, what, complete rest, you know? Because the mind won't be seeking anymore, right? It knows the best thing to know, and the one that, when you know, you know everything else by knowing him, right? And your will will be now resting in the, what, goodness itself, the good of every good, right? Christ is. So you're, both your reason and your will will be completely at, what, rest. And your body will be subject to them, right? So, you'll be completely at rest. You don't go outside anymore. That's what scripture says right now. Don't go out anymore. Looking for something to do, you know? I'm just describing somebody, you know, on the drugs, you know, and they get all hyped up on the drugs, and they say they're going to try to kill a pig, you know? That's not being at rest, right? Drugs don't do anything for you, you know? One of the students, you know, that I, an assumption, you know, he knew these guys, these two guys were talking about how their mind was being expanded by the drugs, right, and so on. He says, well, that's very interesting, you know. Let me come over next time, you know, you're expanding your mind. So he brought over a little recorder, right, huh? And he recorded their wonderful speech during this time. Well, I guess the recorder had a little, you know, red light to show that it's on or something, you know? And they spent the whole time talking about, oh, oh, oh, you see, they're talking a little red light. So when they were sober, you know, or off the drugs, then he played them back this recording, right, that they couldn't stand them themselves, right? I guess that's the best way to cure these people, you know, if you can be cured, you know. Yeah. Thomas talks about that now, both the reason won't be discursing or trying to think things out, right, once he sees God face to face. Then the reason is completely, what, satisfied, right? Completely at rest, huh? No philosophers and guidance. No, no, no philosophizing. And the will will be completely, what, satisfied with the divine goodness, right? So it's going to be completely at rest. I mean, you used to think, you know, that you'd be running around having all the time, you know, trying to see these famous people that you knew about, you know? But I guess the satisfied person, they can let their body be seen or not seen, right? So I don't want to be bothered, you know, Thomas, people like me running after Thomas, you know. Hey, Thomas, what about that thing you said in the... We had a good time with that question 102, you know, Article 4. I never gave them their exam, though, you know, so I don't know how much they absorbed. Well, I could get kind of... I could see he could make himself invisible after a while. Put up with this kind of nonsense. Well, Thomas does seem, you know, places to see that there would be, you know, there could be music in heaven, right? It's kind of interesting, you know, that Mozart and Palestina, you know, are getting together for a big mass, you know, and they're a big praise of God, you know. You know, was it... I forget, was it Paul VI, one of them talking about charity, you know, on how music was appropriate for love, right, huh? Because all the poets see the connection between music and love, right? And so, since heaven is a place of love in that sense, and it seems appropriate, that there would be music in heaven, right? No. Beer? A wine? Not even a wine. I don't think there would be any, you know, painting or sculpture up there, you know, because the glorified bodies and their surroundings would be so beautiful, you know, what do they need to get beautiful paintings? It would make sense of music, though, right? Even this life, you know, I mean, if you go for a walk, you know, and now the leaves are gone now, but then you go for a walk in this nice forest in the fall and so on, it's beautiful, right, to see, right? But the sounds are not as great as the sounds of music, though, are they? You know, you hear the birds chirping and the squirrels moving around and so on. But, so maybe even in heaven, huh, you'd have to have the music, right? You're not going to have tragedy and comedy up there, I don't think. I told you my idea, you know, that, you know, the tragedy and comedy are two main kinds of fiction, right? It has some forms in between there, you know, but I think tragedy and comedy are both a result of the fall, right? And we would not be in the misery that tragedy represents or in the, you know, the stupidity of comedy or something, you know, people being ridiculous, you know? That really fits our fallen state, huh? It's between tragedy and kind of a back and forth tragedy and comedy, right? That's what our life is, huh? And that's not going to be in heaven, right? We need misery. So, Mozart and Palestinian would be more important than maybe Shakespeare and Homer and Michelangelo and so on, right? Take a little break here now. Go on to the wind. I'll never get to the next article, I'll bet.