: Further, the Lord commanded ( Ex. 20:24 ): "You shall make an altar of earth unto Me": and again ( Ex. 20:26 ): "Thou shalt not go up by steps unto My altar." It was therefore unfitting that subsequently they should be commanded to make an altar of wood laid over with gold or b…

dolatry. Since, however, the reason for the precept, "Thou shalt not go up by steps unto My altar" ( Ex. 20:26 ) is stated to have been "lest thy nakedness be discovered," it should be observed that this too was instituted with the purpose of preventing idolatry, for in the feast…

y to be translated, or else God Himself, in Whom we ask to share; because it is said of this altar ( Ex. 20:26 ): "Thou shalt not go up by steps unto My altar, i.e. thou shalt make no steps towards the Trinity." Or else by the angel we are to understand Christ Himself, Who is the…