Leviticus 16:12

“And he shall take a censer, etc.] A fire pan, a sort of chafing dish or perfuming pot; this was a golden one, as appears from (<580904>Hebrews 9:4); hence Christ, the Angel of God’s presence, our interceding High Priest, is said to have such an one, (<660803>Revelation 8:3); and so Josephus says f557, it was a golden one the high priest used on the day of atonement; with which agree the Misnic doctors f558, who say, on other days he took off the coals with a silver one, and poured them into a golden one, but on this day he took them off with a golden one: full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord; these were bright lively coals, not smoking and half extinct; and they…”

“It is important, in reference to the meaning of the day of atonement, to observe the order of the rites as they are described in these verses. Leviticus 16:12 A censer - See Exodus 25:38 note. The altar before the Lord - i. e. the altar of burnt-offering on which the fire was always burning. Leviticus 16:14 The high priest must have come out from the most holy place to fetch the blood, leaving the censer smoking within, and then have entered again within the veil. He sprinkled the blood seven times upon the mercy-seat, on its east side (not “eastward”), and then seven times upon the floor in front of it. If the mercy-seat may be regarded as an altar, the holiest one of the three, on this one…”

“Within the veil - That is, into the holy of holies, Lev 16:2. Leviticus 16:13”

“from off: Lev 10:1; Num 16:18, Num 16:46; Isa 6:6, Isa 6:7; Heb 9:14; Jo1 1:7 sweet incense: Exo 30:34-38, Exo 31:11, Exo 37:29; Rev 8:3, Rev 8:4 Leviticus 16:13”