“One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.”
One cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. The placement of one cherub at each end and the one-piece construction are both executed exactly as specified. The symmetric guardians who stand over the mercy seat are as much a part of the atonement cover as the cover itself: they cannot be removed or repositioned. The cherubim and the mercy seat are one object, as the one final atonement and its eternal consequences are inseparable from the nature of the God who makes it.
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