The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold. The repetition of one piece with the lampstand reinforces the unity of construction that runs through the lampstand's design. Every element — shaft, branches, cups, buds, blossoms — is one piece of hammered gold. There are no seams, no joinings, no places where one element ends and another begins. The unity of the lampstand is the unity of the light it produces: one continuous light from a single piece of gold. John 17:21 records Jesus praying that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you — the unity of the lampstand from which all branches spring is the type of the organic unity Christ desires for His community.

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