Meaning of mercy seat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The lid of the Ark of the Covenant, on which God is said to have been enthroned; taken to represent the throne in heaven.
   Judaism
2. Synonym of mourners' bench.

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Examples

“And thou shalt make a Mercieseat of pure gold: two cubites and a halfe shalbe the length thereof, and a cubite and a halfe the breadth thereof.”

“The greatest mystery of Religion is expressed by adumbration, and in the noblest part of Jewish Types, we finde the Cherubims shadowing the Mercy-seat.”

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