Éxodo 25:21

21 Y pondrás el asiento de la reconciliación sobre el arca, y en el arca pondrás el testimonio que yo te daré

Éxodo 25:21 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:21

And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark
Over it, as a covering for it: this situation of the mercy seat above the ark, where the law was, signifies, that there is no mercy but in a way of righteousness, or of satisfaction to the law of God, and in a consistence with the honour of it; and the cherubim over the mercy seat making a throne for the majesty of God, in which he sat, and the ark below a kind of footstool for him, shows that Christ, the mercy seat and propitiatory, stands between God and his law, and is the mediator between God, and men the transgressors of that law, and by fulfilling it has covered the sins of his people, which are violations of it; and being above it, and having magnified and made it honourable, is able to suppress its charges and accusations, and secure from its curse and condemnation:

and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee;
or "after thou shalt put in the ark" ^F18, as the particle "vau" is sometimes used; the sense is, that then the mercy seat should be put above, and upon the ark, as the covering of it, after the law, or the two tables of testimony, were put into it; for then it was covered, and not to be opened any more; see ( Exodus 40:20 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (Nrah law) "postquam in area", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius. Vid. Nold. Concord Ebr. part. p. 290.

Éxodo 25:21 In-Context

19 Harás, pues, un querubín al extremo de un lado, y un querubín al otro extremo del lado opuesto; harás los querubines en sus dos extremidades

20 Y los querubines extenderán por encima las dos alas, cubriendo con sus alas el asiento de la reconciliación; sus caras la una enfrente de la otra, mirando al asiento de la reconciliación las caras de los querubines

21 Y pondrás el asiento de la reconciliación sobre el arca, y en el arca pondrás el testimonio que yo te daré

22 Y de allí me testificaré a ti, y hablaré contigo de sobre el asiento de la reconciliación, de entre los dos querubines que estarán sobre el arca del testimonio, todo lo que yo te mandaré para los hijos de Israel

23 Harás asimismo una mesa de madera de cedro: su longitud será de dos codos, y de un codo su anchura, y su altura de codo y medio