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Exodus 30:34

Western Saints

Bede

"You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition." Later in this book the spices from which this incense was to be composed are specified by name: stacte, and onycha, galbanum of pleasing fragrance, and the purest frankincense. It is obvious that all of these signify the eternal goods which we ought to seek from the Lord before anything else. …

On the Tabernacle 3.12, AT EXODUS 30:9 ↗