Mercy-seat

No more long voyages, or sleepless nights, -- soon the Lord Himself will come, our bungling and failures all blotted out by the blood on the Mercy-seat.

God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe

It was like a gleam from the Mercy-seat, but I waited to see whether

A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915

It wass like a gleam from the Mercy-seat, but I would be waiting to see whether Satan had any answer, and my heart was standing still.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

Mercy-seat, considering his position and relationship with his dear brother, before he had seen his way to take the present course; but at last God had revealed Himself to him, and he now committed the case to them.

The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872

Perhaps, also, there floats in his mind some kind of reference to the outspread wings and bended heads of the brooding cherubim who sat above the Mercy-seat, gazing down upon the miracle of love that was manifested beneath them there.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

These other metaphors may refer, perhaps, the one to the temple, and the other to the outstretched wings of the cherubim that shadowed the Mercy-seat.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

And therefore we can never think ourselves fully back to that burst of strange sudden thankfulness with which these weeping Marys found those two calm angel forms sitting with folded wings, like the Cherubim over the Mercy-seat, but overshadowing a better propitiation, and heard the words of my text,

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

And, if so, this metaphor carries us still more near to the central blaze of the Shekinah, the glory that hovered above the Mercy-seat, and glowed in the dark sanctuary, unseen but once a year by one trembling high priest, who had to bear with him blood of sacrifice, lest the sight should slay.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

Mercy-seat, with a light that was lambent and lustrous as the light of love and of life -- what was that to the glory, moulded in meekness and garbed in gentleness, the glory that shone, merciful and hospitable and inviting -- a tempered flame on which the poorest, diseased, blind eyes could look, and not wince -- from the face and from the character of Jesus Christ the Lord?

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868

The 'Glory' was the technical name for the lustrous cloud that hung over the Mercy-seat, but here it probably means more generally some visible manifestation of the divine presence.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868