10297. 'Amount for amount there shall be' means total agreement. 'Amount for amount' is used to mean an equal amount of one as of the other, that is, the same amount of frankincense as of the spices; and by amount in either [liquid] measure or weight agreement is meant, in this instance total agreement.

4401. 'And he set up an altar there' means interior worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'setting up an altar' as worship, for the altar was the chief representative of the Lord, 921, 2777, 2811, and therefore the chief feature of worship. By worship here is meant interior worship originating in the Divine Spiritual, dealt with in the paragraph following this.