Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The place of mercy or forgiveness; the propitiatory; specifically, the covering of the ark of the covenant among the Jews.
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Examples
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Moses at Mount Sinai; so also they cannot be applied to Him in His speaking to the high priests from the mercy-seat.
Leviathan 2007
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Divine Presence shook the mercy-seat between the cherubim, and which derive their splendour from no earthly prince, but from the awful Voice, which bade their fathers be nearest of the congregation to the Vision —
Ivanhoe 2004
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Pressing her fingers to her eyeballs till the starry blindness was effected that induces ecstasy, she prostrated herself before the mercy-seat, not omitting, at this crisis, to conciliate the
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The mercy-seat [3161] also does in like manner not at all harmonize with their expositions.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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The seventh, for him who offered gold for the mercy-seat.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Connected to the ends of the mercy-seat were the cherubims of glory, two golden angels facing each other with upspread wings that covered the mercy-seat (Exodus 25: 18-20).
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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"Upon the glory shall be a defence," is as much as, Unto you the mercy-seat shall be on the ark; or, You shall have the mercy represented and intimated thereby.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The ark being supported to such a height, the mercy-seat placed upon that, and the cherubims shading it as arms, had the direct appearance of a throne.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The word which we have rendered "a defence," properly signifies "a covering;" as was the mercy-seat, the covering of the ark.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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There was nothing in it but the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; -- before it was Aaron's rod that budded, with a pot full of manna; -- over it was the propitiatory, or mercy-seat, being a plate of gold as long and as broad as the ark, covering it, being shadowed with the cherubims of glory.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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