Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Which had (he says) a golden Censer, and the ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold: wherein was the golden pot that held the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant. All these things were venerable and conspicuous memorials of the Jewish obstinacy; and the tables of the covenant (for they broke them) And the manna (for they murmured; and therefore handing on the memory thereof to posterity, He commanded it to be laid up in a golden pot). And Aaron's rod that budded. And over it, the Cherubim of glory. What is the Cherubim of glory? He either means the glorious, or those which are under God. Shadowing the mercy-seat.