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MIRROR

Ancient mirrors were made of polished metal, usually copper, gold, silver, or bronze. They were widely produced, as is attested in the Amarna Letters. Mirrors made of glass date back to the 1st century a.d. Excavations in Palestine have unearthed mirrors circular in shape, often with handles of wood, metal, or ivory.

In the OT the bronze laver of the tabernacle was constructed from the bronze mirrors of women who served at the tent of meeting (Exod. 38:8). Using the term metaphorically, Job’s friend Elihu compares the firmament to a cast mirror (Job 37:18); and the author of the Wisdom of Solomon compares wisdom to “a spotless mirror of the working of God” (Wis. 7:26). In the NT the mirror is also used metaphorically. The indistinct image one sees in a mirror represents the incomplete knowledge in the present life (1 Cor. 13:12), and James uses a mirror to distinguish between hearing and doing the Word (Jas. 1:23; cf. 2 Cor. 3:18).

J. Edward Owens






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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