Prima Secundae
247. Summa I-II q.102 a.4, replies 6–9: The Tabernacle, the Ark, the Altars and the Coverings as Figures of Christ
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[0:00] Son, Holy Spirit, Amen. Thank you, God. Thank you, guardian angels. Thank you, Thomas Aquinas. Deo gratias. God, our enlightenment, guardian angels, strengthen the lights of our minds, illumine our images, and arouse us to consider more correctly. Saint Thomas Aquinas, angelic doctor, and help us to understand all that you have written. Name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Amen.

[0:33] Okay, so we're on the question one o two, Article Four, and we're up to the sixth one here. To the sixth, it should be said that of those things which are contained in the tabernacle, a reason, both literal and figurative, can be rendered. The literal one or the lettered one is by relation to the divine what worship, and because it has been said that by the interior or through the interior tabernacle, which is called the holy of holies, is signified the what age of the what spiritual substances.

[1:23] Didn't know that, did you? Yeah, it's question one o two, Article Four, and it's the reply to the sixth. Okay. And therefore, in that tabernacle, three things are contained,

[1:48] to wit, the ark of the what testament, right, in which was the golden what urn, I guess, huh? What? Yeah, urn or pot having manna. Yeah, having manna, and the rod of what Aaron, which flowered, I guess, huh? And the tables, huh? That's the the command, right? In which were written or down the ten precepts of the law, three and seven, huh? And this ark was situated between two cherubim, who looked at each other, right?

[2:33] Okay. And over the ark was a certain what table, right, which was called the what? Something was called the mercy. seat Propitiation. Propitiation. Yeah. Upon the what wings of the cherubim. as if they were carried by what the cherubim themselves, right? As if one imagines that table to be the seat of what God, huh?

[3:08] I guess the cherubim got the idea of seat, huh? They interpret the name. Remember when I was in college, I used to say, you know, seat of wisdom, pray for us. And why was Mary called the seat of wisdom? So I had a professor one time. When they got that, I don't know. But the idea is that a seat is always what open to receiving you, right?

[3:35] So she's always ready to receive the wisdom of God, huh? Okay. So I think the cherubim has something in that meaning, right? The word itself, huh? Seat of God's wisdom. Hmm, okay. Whence it was called the what? The propitiation, huh? As if the what? Through it, there was what? A propitiation for the people. Upon the what? Prayers of the high priest, huh?

[4:15] And therefore, as it were, carried by the cherubim, huh? As it were serving God, huh? And the ark of the testament was like a what? Footstool, Footstool, yeah, sitting upon the propitiation, huh? Now through these three were designated three things, which were in that higher what? Age, it says, huh? Okay. To it, God who is above all things, and incomprehensible to every what creature, huh?

[4:56] And in account of this, no likeness was laid down there. To represent his what invisibility. But there was laid down a certain figure of his what seat, right? Because the creature is comprehensible, which is subject to God, has a seat to the one what sitting, huh?

[5:27] There are also in that higher what age the spiritual substances which are called the angels, huh? And these were signified through two what Cherubim. mutually regarding each other. To designating the concord of them to each other, according to that of Job twenty-five, who makes concord in the what sublime ones, huh? In account of this, there was not just one only cherubim, that they might be designated the multitude of these celestial spirits, huh?

[6:11] which Dionysius says is beyond all number, right? And they excluded the worship of those things, from which what there was commanded that they only what worshipped the one what God, huh They will turn towards him

[6:34] Okay. Thus also in that understandable age, the reasons of all things which are perfected in this world are in some way contained, right? Just as the reasons of the effects are included in their causes, and the reasons of artificial things in the artist.

[6:59] And this is signified through the ark, in which is represented through the three things which are contained there, three things which are most potent in human things. Okay, we're in question one or two, article four, the reply to ad six, the sixth objection.

[7:20] Ah, what are these three things potissima in human affairs? To wit, wisdom, right? Which is represented by the tables of the testament. The power of the regime, which is represented by the rod of what Aaron. And life, which is represented by the manna, which was the sustainer of life.

[7:50] Or through these three things are signified three attributes of God, to wit, wisdom in the tables, huh? That's in the commands, huh? Power in the what?

[8:05] And goodness in the manna, right? Now you've probably seen how those three are sometimes what appropriated to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, huh? So which is appropriated to the Father? Power. Yeah. And to the Son? Wisdom. Yeah. And to the Holy Spirit? Goodness. Yeah. Because he proceeds by way of love, right? His object is goodness, huh? Why the Son proceeds as the Word of the Father, therefore it is wisdom.

[8:39] But power is what defined as the beginning of doing something, huh? The source of doing something. He's the beginning of the whole Trinity, so he's appropriated power. It doesn't mean that one of these belongs more to one than another, but it's appropriated, right? You've heard about appropriation.

[9:05] And also because, from the mercy of God, it was given to people, and therefore it is conserved in memory of the divine what mercy.

[9:16] And these three are also figured in the vision of Isaiah's, chapter six, for we see the Lord sitting upon a what high throne, an elevated one, and the seraphim assisting, right, and the house being filled with the glory of God. Whence the seraphim said, "And full is the whole earth of His what glory." And thus the likenesses of the seraphim are not placed for worship, because it was prohibited by the first what precept of the law, but in a sign of what service.

[9:57] Now, in the exterior tabernacle, which signifies. The present age there contained three things: the altar of what incense, which was directly against the ark, right? The table of the what? Proposition upon which the twelve breads were what placed, which was put down on the what northern side, I guess.

[10:30] And the candelabra, which was on the southern side, huh? Remember that from Australia, right? Yeah, it's part of Australia, huh? The former president there of Australia, there has got a nice little article there in National Review this year, this last one, the 60th anniversary.

[10:57] Which three seem to respond to the three things which are in the included or enclosed in the ark, huh? But the more manifestly, right, represent them, huh? For the reasons of things, for a more manifest demonstration, are led in in the what? They're in the divine mind and the angels that wise men might what be able to know them, which is signified by the priests entering the what tabernacle.

[11:33] And the candelabra is designating, as in a sensible sign, wisdom, which is expressed by understandable words in the what tablets. But through the altar of incense, it signified the office of the priests, huh? Of whom it belonged to whom it belonged to lead back the people to what God, and this is also signified by the rod, huh?

[12:13] For in that altar is what incense, done? Incense of good odor, right? Through which is signified the sanctity of the people acceptable to God, right, huh? It's like when they dig up the body of a saint, and instead of getting a bad smell, they get what smell of flowers, huh? For it said in Apocalypse 8: 3 that through the fume of the aromatic spices and so on are signified the justifications, huh?

[12:50] The justice of the saints, suitably the. What priestly dignity is signified in the ark through the rod, but in the exterior tabernacle by the altar of incense, because the priest is a what mediator between God and the people, right? ruling the people through the divine power, which the rod signifies, and the fruit of their what regimen, the sanctity of the people he offers to God as it were in the altar of what incense, huh?

[13:32] And through the table signified the nourishment of life, as through what manna. But this is a more common and gross nourishment, and that more sweet and subtle. I'm going to give you an exam on this, and I hope you can remember remember all this, huh?

[13:56] Got a very new priest there in the in the parish there, and just ordained this summer, I guess it was. He gives very good sermons and so on. But it kind of surprised me the other day that when he began, he said after death, he said a taxi cab driver and a priest, right? appeared before Peter. And they're both going to be led into heaven, right, huh?

[14:27] But he talked to the taxi cab driver first, and he gave him a very nice, you know, staff, you know, to walk into heaven, you know, and to walk around. And he let the priest in too, but he gave him a very, you know, little wooden thing, wasn't much thing. And he said in kind of dignity to Peter, you know, how come he gave him the real nice stuff and me this?

[14:58] He says I'm a priest. He says, and and he was just a taxi cab driver. Right. What's Peter going to say, right? And Peter said, well, we we give you your place, he says, on the basis of of effects, right? What you produced, right? Now every time he drove, he says people prayed. He said.

[15:27] When you give a sermon, everybody fell asleep. That's kind of good. Now he's going to get out of this. What are you going to come up with, you know? Kind of clever. But one thing he does, though, he gives a very nice sermon, you know. And then at the end of the mass, you know, just he's going to say goodbye, you know. He always recalls something from the sermon, you know, little idea from it, you know.

[15:58] That's really, really, really a very good. I've never seen another priest do that exactly, you know. But it's really, you know. My wife was just remarking about this morning, you know, it gives you something to think about, just as you're, you're leaving right? huh like you don't, you don't just forget the the sermon, you know. But some, you know, fundamental point there, you know. He's just.

[16:22] When when does the kingdom of God come to you, right? He's talking about it come to you even today. It could come to you, you know. He's very good. to say. He's Juan. Escadora, he's there from Colombia, I guess, originally. Do you know? Have you met him? No, but I know the Worcester Diocese has one of

[16:54] them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was at Assumption there when when they had the the bishop there, you know, for the discussion of assisted suicide, you know. Yeah.

[17:12] Okay, suitably the candelabra is placed on the southern side, but the table on the what northern side, huh? Because the southern part is the right side of the world, and the left, the the the northern, the left, as is said in the second book of the Caelo et Mundo. Well, that's the second book in natural philosophy, huh? So I'll leave you to your study of that.

[17:43] Once in a while they kind of get into the De Caelo et Mundo Mundo, you know, give a course on it now. But usually the first course he gave was to everybody, the freshmen. It was the either first or second book of the physics, and then the second course he gave to the later books, you know. So if you're there for a number of years, you get most of the the physics, but not everything.

[18:08] But as he said, he always saw something new every time he taught it. The temporal nourishment to the what left, huh? Sinistra, huh? The sinister side, according to that of Proverbs three, in the sinistra, huh? The left side. Divitiae riches and Gloria. For the such sacerdotal power is in the middle between temporal and what spiritual wisdom, huh? Because to him, right, both spiritual wisdom and temporal are dispensed.

[19:01] Now it's possible also for these another reason to be assigned. magis literalis more literal. In the ark are contained the tables of the law to take away forgetfulness of the law.

[19:20] Whence it is said in Exodus twenty-four, "I will give you two tables, stone tables, right, and the law and the commandments which I have written down, that you might teach them to the sons of what Israel." This must be where you got the start of this. That written in law or stone? Some may say, you know, something is not, you know. But if it's written in stone, I mean, then then you know it's pretty pretty what important, right?

[19:49] It's not not to be to be erased. The rod of Aaron is laid down there to repress the dissension. of the people about the what priesthood of what Aaron, whence it is said in Numbers chapter seventeen. Look at the what rod of Aaron in the tabernacle of testimony. one might observe it in sign of the what rebellion I guess the rebellious sons of Israel, huh? They were always always rebellious or something.

[20:27] The manna was conserved in the ark to commemorate the benefit that God gave to the sons of Israel in the desert, right? Okay, whence it is said in Exodus sixteen. Huh? What's the word gomor, Huh? What do you got there in English there? They just leave it that way. The Gomer. Yeah. And one might one might keep for future generations, right? Huh? That they know the breads with which I fed you in the what solitude.

[20:59] Huh? The candelabra was for instituted for the what honoring of the tabernacle, for it pertains to the magnificence of a house that be well lit, huh?

[21:14] You know, sometimes in the big cathedrals, you know, they're dark and then the sun is isn't going to have the same one, and they, you know, flood the thing with light, huh? Okay. And the candelabra had seven what? Branches. Branches, yeah. As Joseph said, right? Huh? To signifying the seven planets. Later on, he'll give a different explanation of the seven there, which would be that we'll see, but because we think there's more than seven planets now, right?

[21:52] Yeah, yeah, yeah. By which the whole world is what illuminated, right? Huh? We see in the last planets, you know, they they guessed that they were there before they saw them, because their mathematics got so exact that the known planets were not exactly where they should be, if that's all they were. They must be influenced by planets we don't know, and their math was so exact they could actually say where they thought the planets would be, and that's where they consecrated the telescopes.

[22:21] And sure enough, it's kind of an amazing amazing thing to see that the accuracy of that. I was reading an account there, you know, of the invention of the e bomb, you know, huh? And kind of a thing talking about it's called the the general and the genius, right? The general is Groves, right? Who was in charge of the whole thing, and then the genius is is Oppenheimer, you know.

[22:54] But it's kind of funny to get the characters of these people, you know. The general, he delighted the fact that people were actually afraid of him, right? Was he severe, you know? I mean, just running things, and you needed it, huh? But they they did it in about two or three years, you know, and kind of amazing thing, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And of course, when when they when they blew it up, when they set it off, finding the the big test there, and they wanted to be able to tell Truman, right, who was at Potsdam, I guess, with with Stalin, you know, about this new bomb.

[23:27] It's important, yeah. And of course, Stalin knew about it already because he had three spies there already. Oh, because but he did. He smiled. It's kind of funny Truman here. Oh, we got those bombers.

[23:51] Okay. And therefore, he lays down or places the candelabra on the southern side. From that side is the what path of the planets. The altar of the incense was instituted that it might be what. be, the fume of good odor, right, huh? Both an account of the veneration of the tabernacle, but also in remedy of the what fetish smell, right, huh? It happened from the effusion of blood and the occasion of animals, huh?

[24:28] As long as they talk about this, and they talk about the Eucharist, Don, how you have a very simple, you know, food, you know, but you're killing all these animals, huh? The smell would. You'd need some kind of a thing to to overcome that smell, you know, not just a spray can, but I mean, really, really.

[24:48] I didn't spray cans anyway then, but because fetid things are what despised as vile, right, huh? But those things that have a good odor, men appreciate more, right? The table was added to signifying that the priests serving the temple, ought to have what food from the temple, right? Whence the twelve loaves placed upon the table, were memory of the twelve tribes. It was only visited for the priests to eat as as had Matthew twelve.

[25:24] I guess that's one where Christ tells about what David did, right, huh? One time when he went to eat them, right, huh? With his men, huh?

[25:33] That story in Matthew twelve. But the table was not placed directly in the middle before the propitiation, to exclude the right of idolatry. For the Gentiles in the what sacred times of the moon, placed the table before the idol of the moon, huh? Whence it is said in Jeremiah seven, the woman, what, anointed the fat, right, that they might make things pleasant to the Queen of Heaven.

[26:06] I guess the Queen of Heaven is is the Moon, huh? Just number number of names here: in theology, Diana, and so on, right? Okay.

[26:23] In the atrium, that was outside the tabernacle, was contained the altar of holocausts, in which was offered to God the sacrifices of those things which were possessed, or from those things which were possessed by the people. And therefore, in the atrium, the people were able to be priests who are only in the inner courts, huh? who offered these things to God through the hands of the priests.

[26:50] But at the interior altar, in which the devotion and holiness of the people of God was offered, no one could go in except the what priests, to whom it was or belonged to offer to God the people. But this altar outside the tabernacle, constituted in the atrium, was to remove the cult of idolatry, for the Gentiles below the temples constituted, altars to what sacrifice to their idols, huh?

[27:26] Now that is enough. Get a little more. A figurative reason of all these things can be assigned from the relation of the tabernacle to Christ, who is figured there. It should be considered that to designate the imperfection of the legal figures, diverse figures were instituted in the temple to signify Christ. For he is signified through the what propitiation, huh? Because he is a propitiation for our sins, as is said in the, I guess that's the first epistle of John, right?

[28:04] Chapter two. And suitably, the propitiation was carried by the cherubim, because about him it is written, there were what angels of God there, right? It says, had in Hebrew one. Also, he signified through the ark, because the ark was constructed of what the woods, right? So the body of Christ was what constituted for most pure members. It was also what covered with gold, I guess, huh? Because Christ was full of wisdom and charity, which is signified by gold, huh?

[28:49] So you got that now? Wisdom and charity are signified by gold, huh? The gold standard. We still use that term, the gold standard. Even though we're not talking about gold, don't we? Gold standard.

[29:13] Okay. Inside the ark was a what? Golden urn. That is what? A holy what? Soul having mana. That is all the fullness of what? Divinity.

[29:32] There was in the ark a rod. That is the priestly power because he, that means Christ, huh, was made a sacerdos in aeternum, that's in the Psalms, right?

[29:47] Hebrews, I guess, too. There was in the ark a rod, yeah, because he was made a priest in aeternum. There was also there tables of the testament to designate that Christ is the giver. 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. It's better than seven.

[30:20] Seven. Seven. Plants. Okay. He is signified through the table because he is the spiritual food, according to that of John six. I am the living bread, right? And the twelve breads signify the twelve apostles, or his what teaching?

[30:45] When Thomas gets through there at the end of the first book of the compendium of theology, right? You know, he's going through the the whole of the Trinity. I mean, the whole creed, you know. And then he says, "Well, how many articles are there?" Right? And he gives it two ways of dividing them up. It's either fourteen or another way of dividing them we get twelve, right?

[31:08] Now, so that's doctrine there, huh? It's kind of the apostolic doctrine too, right? There being twelve apostles, right? Now, twelve tribes of Israel and so on.

[31:32] So he says the twelve breads signify the twelve apostles, right? Or their doctrine, right? Now, that's what it is. You know, the Thomas is explaining the the symbolum apostolorum he calls it, huh? We call it the Apostles' Creed, right? And sometimes he divides it into twelve articles.

[31:55] Sometimes he divides it into fourteen. What's the Latin there for teaching? Teaching doctrinum. What's doctr? What's Augustine's treatise on? Suck, you know. Sacred doctrine, right? Doctrina Christiana, Doctrina Christiana.

[32:32] Or through the candelabra and the table can be signified the teaching and faith of the church, huh? Which also illumine and enlighten and spiritually refresh us.

[32:49] Christ himself is signified through the twofold 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 offer the spiritual desires of the perfect.

[33:22] They are offered 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.

[33:44] Okay, on your exam. Not each one of these is is very deep, maybe, but there's so many of them, right? But 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.

[34:16] 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?

[34:49] 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 serve the what tabernacle or the temple.

[35:09] Now about the construction of the altar, there is given by God a twofold 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, huh, de terra, or at least of what stones, not what cut.

[35:36] And again, that they do not make an altar that is high, to which it is necessary to ascend by what steps. And this for detesting the cult of idolatry, huh? For the Gentiles, huh, constructed altars for their idols, huh, that were ornate and sublime, in which they believed something of what sanctity and mystery I guess to be, huh? An account of which also the Lord commanded Deuteronomy sixteen, you will not plant a what?

[36:17] Trees? Yeah. Next to the altar of the Lord your God, for the idolaters were accustomed to sacrifice under the trees. What's the name of those guys that you had in England there, the old days? Yeah, the New Temple the trees weren't there a lot.

[36:38] Yeah, yeah. An account of their, you know, agreeableness and and umbrositatem their being shading, okay, doing this shady stuff, going on, okay. Of which precepts there there was a figurative what reason, right? 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, huh?

[37:22] It's the element that earth, air, fire, and water, huh? 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? Huh? Which is not to ascend by steps to the altar. That's very subtle, huh? Huh?

[37:48] Nor should we, according to Christ, admit the teaching of the Gentiles, huh? That provokes one to what lust, huh? libidinem huh? But having constructed the tabernacle or the tent, huh, to the honor of God, they were not what fearful of these being occasions of what idolatry, huh? And therefore God commanded that they make an altar of what holocaust from what that bronze is it? Bronze. What brass?

[38:27] Okay. Which was conspicuous to all the people. And an altar of what incense, huh? Of gold, huh? Which only the priests saw, right? Now why? See. For it was not the precious the preciousness, huh? Such preciousness of 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 and he came down, they had constructed their what?

[39:06] Wasn't gold, isn't it? Isn't it the golden calf? Yeah, the golden calf. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, you know, if you're going to worship this thing, you better have a gold one, right? If it's just just brass, I mean, well, that's.

[39:23] And it's kind of striking if the one that I guess was gold, right? The one that that he had constructed and his they melted down their jewelry they had conquered from Egypt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I mean, it, 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

[39:45] you know the Greeks have gold statues, and I don't know. So, so the priests can see the you know golden thing, but not the the multitude, right? Who are more Subject to idolatry, right? Give them a plain brass.

[40:12] And because Exodus twenty 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? Huh? For in sacris Priapi this is terrible stuff here. The suapudenda the sexual parts, right? Were shown to the people, right? Huh? This is filthy, right?

[40:50] Okay. And therefore he goes on to say, without danger, right? One could institute such a alt- alt altitude of altar that to some what wooden steps, not standing but portable, in the hour sacrifices the priests would ascend to offering the what sacrifices, huh? So.

[41:22] Okay. Now we go back to the colors here, right? Huh? In the reply to the eighth objection, to the eighth, it should be said that the body of the what? How do you translate tabernacle? They translate by tent, right? Yeah. But I guess originally it's got the idea of the tent, right? Huh? Somebody used to have the thing around the tabernacle, right, to make it look a little bit like a tent, huh?

[41:56] 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 cloth curtains, yeah. From four what various colors, right?

[42:26] And the first one is what bysso retorta what is that? Twisted linen. Twisted linen. Okay. And hyacinth, right? And purple. And coccoque Cause twice. dye is what they got Yeah bis tincto huh Twice Oh twice dye Latin is bis tincto

[42:55] Two words. bis twice. So we get the word bicycle, I guess, bis bicycle, bis tincto. But these what curtains? 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. So we get to what do rubics mean? What does that mean in the church?

[43:38] The rubics. It's written in red. Yeah. The directions in red. Yeah. What you would say was in black. Yeah. Yeah. And and above this third certain what saga What is that? Sagis. Goats hair Goats hair yeah. Okay.

[44:06] Which not only covered the roof of the tabernacle, but also came down upon the what earth, and covered the what tables, the tabernacle on the outside. Now. Now

[44:32] these what coverings? The literal reason in common was the what ornate protection of the tabernacle, right? That might be had in reverence, right? But in special, according to some,

[44:51] through the what? Through the cortinas, the the uh... Curtains. Curtains, yeah. Are designating the celum sidurium, right? These one which is stars there, which is varied by diverse what stars, huh? Through the what saga, the

[45:15] the waters which are above the firmamenta, right? Huh? That's always a question. What those waters are supposed to mean, right? Scripture. Through the red skins, the imperium Caelum, right? That's we're going after we're dead, right? We'll be in the caelum imperium if we're been good, in which are the angels, right? Huh? And through the hyacinth skins, the caelum of the holy Trinity. Okay.

[45:50] And those all in Dante now, or what? Those 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? Huh? You know, we compare the Christians to the bricks or whatever it is that the church is constructed from, right?

[46:29] The interior tables are covered by the what curtains, quadricoloribus, huh? For the four colors, right? Huh? Because the faithful inwardly are what adorned with four what virtues, huh? Four in the what? Twisted linen. The gloss said is signified what caro, flesh,

[47:00] with chastity, right? Huh? Shining with chastity, huh? Christ's body is what was the Christ's body wrapped in linen, wasn't it? See, that's why they say they use linen on the on the altar even today, right?

[47:23] In hyacinth, the mind what desiring higher things, right? Superna. In purpura, in the purple ones, I guess the what flesh being subject to the passions, huh? Sufferings, I guess. And in the cocco bis tincto huh? In the what is that? The

[47:49] yeah, the mind between the passions of God and the love of one's neighbor is shining, huh? Prefulgens. Through the coverings of the roof are designated the prelates and the doctors, huh? Talking from the roof, huh? What's to be said in there? In which one not to what?

[48:22] Yeah, the celestial conversation, right? Which is signified through the hyacinth skins. The promptitude for martyr martyrdom, which is signified by the redskins, and the austerity of life and the tolerance of adversities, which is signified through the

[48:45] was it the sagas? Yeah, that's yeah, which were exposed to the winds, right, into the rains, huh? As the gloss says, all these guys running around in the Middle Ages, you know, giving these explanations. huh Yeah Hugo Saint Victor, and so on. He's got a big thing on the ark, doesn't he? Okay.

[49:16] Oh boy, that's, that was the eighth. one. Now we're up to the De Anima here, right? Lord, deliver us. To the ninth, it should be said that the sanctification of the tabernacle and of the vases has a what literal cause, right? So that they might be had in more what reverence, 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.

[50:09] Well, we had 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 the that goes on the building and the people make up the church, right? You know. And first you're kind of surprised you see that, you know, why they're commemorating. Yeah, yeah. But there's a number of those feasts there in the calendar, you know.

[50:38] 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, number of Lateran Councils yeah, yeah. Thomas has an exposition on one of them. Part of one of them anyway.

[51:14] Fourth Lateran Council, right? Quite a quite a good council. Impressive. Okay. Okay.