ARK OF MARY - NYOBS 16.25

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 16 - THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

Ark of Mary – Rabbit Trail

• The following is handed down by sacred tradition; I include it here because it became somewhat embraced beginning in the fourth century A.D. up until now.
• The Roman Catholic writers saw the Blessed Virgin Mary as the “Ark of the Covenant” because she herself carried the Savior of mankind within her. – She became the “Holy of Holies”
• “She is the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the flesh in which Divinity resides”  (Homily of the Papyrus of Turin)
• I can certainly in my spirit, embrace symbolically that the Ark of wood, containing the old covenant, was only a shadow of the Ark of flesh that contained the new covenant.
• I can also identify with the love and respect for Mary the mother of Jesus.
• Roman Catholics believe that Mary was also born of a Virgin, therefore sinless and a co-redeemer equal with Jesus. – Therein lies the problem, it’s just not found in scripture.