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Often appears with: restoration by cows yoked to the ark · miracles and divine intervention · jordan crossing · contracts, oaths, and obligation · ark of the covenant
Usually: narrative (1) · reverence (1)
Augustine explains that the law was kept in the ark of the covenant, authenticated by signs like the Jordan crossing, collapsing city walls, and the ark’s miraculous return by untended cows.
17. _Concerning the ark of the covenant, and the miraculous signs whereby God authenticated the law and the promise._ On this account it was that the law of God, given by the disposition of angels, and which commanded that the one God of gods alone receive sacred worship, to the exclusion of all others, was deposited in the ark, called the ark of the testimony. By this name it is sufficiently indicated, not that God…