and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
Directions are here given for the composition of the holy anointing oil and the incense that were to be used in the service of the tabernacle; with these God was to be honoured, and therefore he would appoint the making of them; for nothing comes to God but what comes from him. 1.
Commenting on Exodus 30:22-38
And thou shalt make it a perfume,.... By mixing the above spices together: a confection after the art of the apothecary; in the manner they beat, compound, and mix several ingredients together: tempered together; or "salted" (l), with salt of Sodom, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and Maimonides (m) says, there was a fourth part of a kab of salt of Sodom put into it...
Exo 30:34-38 The Holy Incense was also to be made of four ingredients, viz., (1) nataph (στακτή, stacte), i.e., not the resinous myrrh, or sap obtained from the fragrant myrrh and dried, but a kind of storax gum resembling myrrh, which was baked, and then used, like incense, for fumigating; - (2) shecheleth (ὄνυξ, ungius odoratus), the shell of a shell-fish resembling the purpura, of...
Commenting on Exodus 30:34-38