Numbers 4:5-6. And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: and shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
These Kohathites might not so take the ark as to handle it, much less might they ever look at it. But the priests, and the sons of Aaron, went in first, and after carefully covering the holy place, they covered up the sacred ark with a cloth of blue. Blue was the token of holiness, - of separation. Hence, every Israelite wore a border of blue upon his garment, but this, which was the symbol of the divine presence, was "all of blue." It is all holiness. We wear, alas! but a border of blue, but this holy thing was "all of blue."
Numbers 4:5-6. And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: and shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
These Kohathites might not so take the ark as to handle it, much less might they ever look at it. But the priests, and the sons of Aaron, went in first, and after carefully covering the holy place, they covered up the sacred ark with a cloth of blue. Blue was the token of holiness, - of separation. Hence, every Israelite wore a border of blue upon his garment, but this, which was the symbol of the divine presence, was "all of blue." It is all holiness. We wear, alas! but a border of blue, but this holy thing was "all of blue."