(5) First Temple. In the first temple, instead of this single candelabrum, there were ten can delabra of pure gold (t Kings vii :49; 2 Chron. iv:7), one-half of which stood on the north and the other on the south side of the Holy Place. These were carried away to Babylon (Jer. hi :t9).
(6) Second Temple. In the temple of Zerub babel there appears to have been only one can delabrum again (1 Mace. 1:21 ; iv :40, 50). It is probable that it also had only seven lamps.
(7) Herodian Temple. At least, that was the case in the candelabrum of the Herodian temple, According to the description of Josephus (De Bell vii :5). This candelabrum is the one which, after the destruction of Jerusalem, was carried with other spoils to Rome ; then, A. D. 455, be came a part of the plunder which Genseric trans ported to Africa; was again, about A. D. 533, recapture) from the Vandals by Belisarius, and carried to Constantinople, and was thence sent off to Jerusalem, and from that time has disap pearec altogether. It is to this candelabrum that the representation on the arch of Titus, at Rome, was intended to apply.
Figurative. The custom, practiced from time immemorial in the East, of allowing a house lamp to burn night and day, is the source of the fre quent figure by which the continually burn ing lamp pictures the eontinued prosperity both of the individual and of his family ( l's. xviii:
28, 29), 'thou wilt light my candle' i t Kings xi:36). Conversely, 'to put out the candle of the wicked' (Prov. xxiv :2o; Job xviii:6) is to make his home desolate and bring destruction on himself. This familiar metaphor is employed in the Apocalypse to describe the fate with which the Church of Ephesus was threatened: 'I will remove thy candlestick out of his place' (Rev. ii :5). (R. S. Kennedy, Hastings' Bib. Diet.) The "seven golden candlesticks" in John's vision, denoted the seven churches of Asia (Rev. i:2o). As seven denotes fulness, Jesus, walking in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, implies his watchful presence in the church universal.
CANE (kan), or calamus (Cant. iv:t4; Ezek. xxvii:19);or sweet calamus (Ex. xxx:23); or sweet cane (Is. xliii:24; Jer. vi:2o); all probably names for the same plant.
It seems to have been an aromatic reed brought "from a far country." Lemon-grass (Andropo gon) is "a plant of remarkable fragrance and a native of Central India, where it is used to mix with ointments, on account of the delicacy of its odor." Calamus may have been a species of this. (See K.A.sEn.)