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You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
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Mercy Covers the Law
Commentators highlight the specific instruction to place the mercy seat on top of the ark containing the law. This physical arrangement symbolizes a profound theological truth: God's mercy, accessed through atonement, covers and satisfies the righteous demands of His law. As John Gill explains, this shows that mercy is given in a way that honors justice, not by ignoring it.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A mercy seat of pure gold – (Exodus 25:18–20). In external form, the mercy seat was a plate of gold with the cherubim standing o…
19th Century
Baptist
It was the meeting place of God and people, where the law was covered with a solid plate of gold, so is Jesus the meeting place between God and sin…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall put the mercy seat above upon the ark Over it, as a covering for it: this situation of the mercy seat …
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The ark was a chest, overlaid with gold, in which the two tables of the law were to be kept. These tables are called the testimony; God in them tes…
