“Robin murmured about forty minutes later, leaning back in her chair, her laptop open on the desk in front of her, “this is interesting. According to most of the references I’ve been able to find online, the Ark of the Covenant seemed to be consistently referred to, at least in the Latin Vulgate Bible, as the Arca Foederis, not the Archa Cederis. But you were right about the objects that the Ark was supposed to contain, and all of them are very clearly represented in that sculpture, so despite t...he two different words, I guess that both the expressions have to be referring to the same thing, though they have quite different meanings in Latin.” “They do?” Mallory asked. “Yes. Arca translates as an ark or a box, and foederis means a contract or a promise, so Arca Foederis is a very clear reference to the Ark of the Covenant. But archa translates as an archangel, not an ark, and I’m still trying to work out the meaning of cederis.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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