Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 28:36

36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD .

Like an half coronet, reaching, as the Iews say, from ear to ear.

To mind the Priest of his special consecration to God, and of that singular [illegible: 1+ letters]oliress which was required of him as at all times so especially in his approaches to God. It might also represent Christ who is called the holy one of God, and who is a crowned Priest, or both King and Priest.