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Rationale divinorum officiorum

Chapter 32

CHAPTER II

OF THE ALTAR
The First Builders of Altars — The Difference between Altare and Ara — Various Significations of Various Kinds of Altars — The Ark of the Testi- mony— It is preserved in the Lateran Church — What a Man needeth that he may be the Temple of God — What the Table Signifieth — Of the Candlestick— Of the Ark— Of the Altar— Of the Altar Cloths- Of Steps to the Altar.