the ark of the covenant
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the ark · the ark of God's covenant
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Adversus Judaeos
The sacred chest carried by the priests around Jericho during the seven-day siege.
In short, so far is this solemnity from being celebrated in the cessation of the Sabbath — that is, of the seventh day — that Joshua son of Nun, at the time when he was warring down the city of Jericho, said that a command had been given him by God to charge the people that the priests should carry the ark of God's covenant around the circuit of the city for seven days, and that thus, when the cir …
Adversus Marcionem
The sacred ark, carried around Jericho on the sabbath and adorned with golden Cherubim and Seraphim, used to argue for the consistency of divine law.
So in the rest too you reproach Him with contrarieties of precepts, as fickle and unstable, forbidding work on the sabbath and commanding the ark to be carried round for eight days, that is, even on the sabbath, in the storming of the city of Jericho.
So too the Cherubim and Seraphim of gold, fashioned for the model of the ark — surely a simple ornament, fitted to the mercy-seat, having causes far diverse from the condition of idolatry, on account of which the likeness is forbidden — do not seem to clash with the law of forbidden likenesses, not being detected in that state of likeness on account of which the likeness is forbidden.