3. Mary, Ark of the Covenant:
The Old Testament ark of the Covenant was a true icon of the sacred. It was a picture of the purity and holiness God fittingly demands of those objects and/or persons most closely associated with himself and the plan of salvation. Because it would contain the very presence of God symbolized by three types of the coming Messiah—the manna, the Ten Commandments, and Aaron’s staff—it had to be most pure and untouched by sinful man (see II Sam. 6:1-9; Exodus 25:10ff; Numbers 4:15; Heb. 9:4).
In the New Testament, the new and true Ark would not be an inanimate object, but a person—the Blessed Mother. How much more pure would the new and true Ark be when we consider the old ark was a mere “shadow” in relation to it (see Heb. 10:1)? This image of Mary as the Ark of the Covenant is an indicator that Mary would fittingly be free from all contagion of sin in order for her to be a worthy vessel to bear God in her womb. And most importantly, just as the Old Covenant ark was pristine from the moment it was constructed with explicit divine instructions in Exodus 25, so would Mary be most pure from the moment of her conception. God, in a sense, prepared his own dwelling place in both the Old and New Testaments.
That's what I expected to find. A bald-faced assertion without evidence. And certainly nothing about enforcing her perpetual virginity by striking dead any man (Joseph included) who touched her.
I noticed the author used scripture up until Mary being “an ark”. Then it’s, “see Luke 1”.
Of course the author failed to reference Romans 3:23, “For ALL have sinned...”.
Christ is the new Ark of the Covenant. That’s just one more thing Catholics take from Christ and give to Mary.
😄 Evidently, Joseph did more than just touch Mary, as two of her sons wrote books in the New Testament, James, who they like to quote, and Jude. How does that grab Ya?