13〔平息处〕是出埃及二十五章十七节约柜上的遮罪盖所预表的。约柜是神与人相会的地方,其中放着十条诫命的律法,借其圣别和公义的要求,暴露并定罪前来接触神之人的罪。但借着约柜的盖,连同遮罪日洒在其上遮罪的血,罪人的整个光景就完全得着遮盖。因此神能在这遮罪盖上,与干犯祂公义律法的百姓相会,即使在那载着神的荣耀,并遮掩柜盖之基路伯的注视下,在行政上也丝毫不抵触祂的公义。……这预表基督作神的羔羊,除去人与神出事的罪(约一29),满足了神一切圣别、公义和荣耀的要求,平息了人与神之间的关系(罗三25注2)。 13The propitiation place is typified in Exodus 25:17 by the sin-covering lid on the Ark. The Ark was the place where God met with people. In the Ark was the law of the Ten Commandments, which by its holy and righteous requirement exposed and condemned the sins of the people who came to contact God. However, by the lid of the Ark, with the expiating blood sprinkled on it on the Day of Expiation, the entire situation on the sinner’s side was fully covered. Therefore, upon this sin-covering lid God could meet with the people who broke His righteous law, and He could do this without, governmentally, any contradiction to His righteousness, even under the observing of the cherubim that bore His glory and overshadowed the lid of the Ark…This is a prefigure of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin that caused man to have a problem with God (John 1:29), thus satisfying all the requirements of God’s holiness, righteousness, and glory and appeasing the relationship between man and God. (Rom. 3:25, footnote 2)