Kebra Nagast

More Concerning the Ark signs and wonders were performed through it by its form and similitude. Hearken ye now unto me, and I will show you plainly how God had ordained salvation through the wood of His Cross, in the Tabernacle of His Law, from the beginning to and very many the end. Salvation came unto Adam through the wood. For Adam's first transgression came through the wood, and from the beginning God ordained salvation for him through the wood. For God Himself is the Creator and Giver of life and death, and everything is performed by His Word, and He created everything, and He maketh righteous him that serveth Him in purity in His pure Tabernacle of the Law. For it is called " " and it is also called mercy-seat," place of refuge," and it is also called " altar," and it is also called " place " of forgiveness of sins," and it is called salvation," and " " it is called of is called and it life," gate glorification," and it is called " city of refuge," and it is called " ship," and it is called " haven of salvation," and it is called " house of prayer," and it is called " place of forgiveness of sins for him that prayeth in purity in it," so that [men] may pray therein in purity and not defile their God loveth the pure, for He is the habitation Those who come into His habitation, and are accepted in the holy Tabernacle, and who pray unto Him with all their hearts, He will hear and will save in the day of their tribulation, and He will fulfil their desire. For He hath made the holy Tabernacle to be a bodies. for the pure. similitude of His throne. But there are some among those whom ye have brought unto us who are like unto us Christians, but who have not abandoned the sin which their father the Devil hath made to spring up in And he said, " Thus it is right that we should she pray in Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God was at the first and is even now. The similitude thereof them. ; and the fruit thereof are the Mother of the Redeemer, 197