The Pope’s big gold chair – the one he occupies when he welcomes visitors to audiences in Rome. It’s interesting to note that it is really a wooden chair, covered with thin layers of gold leaf.
Up until 1978 the Pope was carried in a Sedia Gestatoria.
This chair has metal rings attached to each side, allowing use as a gestatorial chair which is a ceremonial throne on which popes were carried on shoulders.
On prior occasions, as in the case of Pope Stephen III, popes were carried on the shoulders of men.
Sedia gestatoria were richly adorned , silk-covered armchairs, fastened on a suppedaneum, on each side of which were two gilded rings, through which long rods were passed allowing twelve footmen to carry the throne on their shoulders.
Now Compare to Exodus 25:10-14 and Joshua 3:3
Exodus 25:10-14
The Ark
10 “Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 13 Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
Joshua 3:3
giving orders to the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
References
http://www.goldrefiners.com/blog/20...ow that the,million to secure its investments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedia_gestatoria
https://www.medieval.eu/sedia-gestatoria/
QUESTION:
If God's Law resides in the Ark, what then resides in the Sedia Gestatoria (Pope Chair)?
Up until 1978 the Pope was carried in a Sedia Gestatoria.
This chair has metal rings attached to each side, allowing use as a gestatorial chair which is a ceremonial throne on which popes were carried on shoulders.
On prior occasions, as in the case of Pope Stephen III, popes were carried on the shoulders of men.
Sedia gestatoria were richly adorned , silk-covered armchairs, fastened on a suppedaneum, on each side of which were two gilded rings, through which long rods were passed allowing twelve footmen to carry the throne on their shoulders.
Now Compare to Exodus 25:10-14 and Joshua 3:3
Exodus 25:10-14
The Ark
10 “Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 13 Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
Joshua 3:3
giving orders to the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
References
http://www.goldrefiners.com/blog/20...ow that the,million to secure its investments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedia_gestatoria
https://www.medieval.eu/sedia-gestatoria/
QUESTION:
If God's Law resides in the Ark, what then resides in the Sedia Gestatoria (Pope Chair)?