Kohath covers holy things; age 25–50 = strong mind; hyacinth = from-heaven

Cyril: …be, and they will cast upon it a scarlet garment, and will cover it with a covering of hyacinth skin, and will put through it the carrying-poles. And they will take a hyacinth garment, and will cover the lampstand the lighting, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuffers, and all the vessels of the oil, with which they liturgize in them. And they will put it, and all its vessels, into a covering of hyacinth skin, and will set it upon carrying-poles, and upon the golden altar they will cover over a hyacinth garment, and will cover it with a covering of hyacinth skin, and will put through its carrying-poles, and will take all the liturgical vessels as many as they liturgize in them in the holy things, and will put into a hyacinth garment, and will cover them with a covering of hyacinth skin, and will set upon carrying-poles, and will set the cover upon the altar, and will cover over it a whole-purple garment, and will set upon it all the vessels with which they liturgize upon it in them, and the fire-pans, and the flesh-hooks, and the bowls, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar, and will cast upon it a covering of hyacinth skin, and will put through its carrying-poles. And they will take a purple garment, and will cover-together the laver and its base, and will put it into a covering of hyacinth skin, and will set upon carrying-poles, and Aaron and his sons will finish, covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, in the lifting of the camp and after these the sons of Kohath will go in to lift, and will not touch the holy things, in order that they may not die.’ So then the enrollment from month-olds also teaches that the very harmlessness of the saints is pleasing and well-acceptable to God. And that only the age defined by the law—the from twenty-five, and until fifty years—has been distributed to the sacred works, that I think makes clear, that every as much as is already both thoughtful and well-strong finishes for God the exceptional liturgy and having it unreproachably. For already in these is the one become in twenty and five years, and still also the one having gone forward until fifty. For somehow already a man having driven beyond the fiftieth has nodded toward a leaving-off of strength, and is no longer in the blameless peaks, but creeps as it were upon the sufferings from old-age. And no one unwise, nor indeed powerless, would liturgize blamelessly for God, if at least it is true to say that works of strength and of a very beautiful mind would be as many as would look toward virtue; and it has been allotted that they must be praised by the lawgiver.

Palladius: Thus I say.

Cyril: And liturgy for those from people of Kohath, the Holy of holies, with the priests running-before and packing them. For everywhere more honorable is the outstanding in order, and all as many as are in good-order with God, and nothing altogether unordered. And the Levitical in under-services, and having been spread under the sacred-works of those overlying. And both with skins and hyacinth garments are packed the holy ark, and the gol (Numbers 4:5–15)