What is the purpose of the throne and what is the name of these things?
The appointment to the throne, first of all, the fact that he has a place in the temple, where, surrounded by the Holy angels, as king and head of the Church, the Lord Jesus Christ is mysteriously and especially, like in the sky who by his grace, and in the Holy Gifts of the body and blood of Christ, possedit, makes ordinances for Their faithful, hears their prayers, gives them his sanctifying and saving grace, teaches his most pure Body and Blood, and manages them as his Church, i.e., teaches and judges in the Holy gospel. Secondly, on the throne, and not only during the Liturgy, his Holiness brought the bloodless sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ for us sinners, both living and dead.
What is the part of the altar and all the temple, the Holy thronein relation to the other parts of them?
In its place the special presence of God and offering the Holy sacraments, it is the most important the neck and a sacred place in the altar or in the temple. It is sacred not touching, not only for the laity but for the clergy or a clerk. Equally well as inviolable and place before him from the king's gate.
What is the spiritual significance of the Holy throne?
Generally the throne means the throne of the Lord, the head of the Church. In particular, during the Liturgy, its meaning is the following: because in front of the throne and on the thronee during the Liturgy tyrants remembers especially the following circumstances of the earthly life of Jesus Christand committing to Them the last supper, where on Holy Thursday He found the sacrament of the Holy communion and first communion to His apostles, His crucifixion, suffering, burial, resurrection and ascension to heaven; that St. pre-table at this time means the meal (table), where Jesus Christ is first made Holy communion, mount Calvarywhere He was crucified, the coffin in which was buried and from which arose, and the mount of olives from which he ascended.
Is there any significance to the fact that the thrones are always rectangular in shape?
In ancient times, the altars was made different shapes. Subsequently became to always make them quadrangular, in a sign that eating to bring on them the bloodless sacrifice are called upon peoples of all four countries in the world, and that we're making now during the Liturgy, they made a sacrifice was Jesus Christ on Calvary for all these peoples
Where it is clear that in the temple, in the altar on the Holy throne of God, by His grace, especially as it is in heaven?
When the Lord commanded Moses to build the earth's first temple, the tabernacle, and when king Solomon instead of the tabernacle erected and consecrated a magnificent temple in Jerusalem, promised to be in both especially eyes be My one and My heart (ex. 25, 8. 3 kgs. 9, 3.), He said. Indeed, at the consecration of the tabernacle and of the temple of Solomon, the Lord apparently had gotten into them in the form of bright clouds. In the tabernacle and in the temple of Solomon was then called, the Ark of the Covenant. It is—according to the commandment of God, made of precious wood and upholstered in gold-the box in which were kept the sacred things of the Jews: the tablets on which God Himself had written the 10 commandments of the law, etc. and who stood in the most Holy place of the temple in the Holy of Holies. On the ark of the Covenant was the veil, called acetylidene decorated with hocks set on both sides of his Golden cherubs. And here, on chistilishe was a place of special presence of God in the temple, and it was the throne where God accepted worship from the Jewish people and revealed His will. And known you will be, the Lord spoke to Moses, when commanded to arrange chistilishe, and lay you on top of acetylide between the two cherubim (ex. 25, 22. Bibl. Ist. Filar.) The Holy of holies of the Jewish temple in Christian churches the altar. There's sanctuary, here the Holy see. In the Gospels Jesus Christ said about the temple: My house a house of prayer eats (IAA. 19, 46). Since the consecration of the temple is the house of God-to them; everything, even the material from which made the temple, things is sacred.— A Holy temple. Therefore, included in it for prayers, passing by him must remember this Holiness, to come in and stand in it reverently, as in the house of the king of heaven, to pass it with a prayer and the sign of the cross.
Fig. . The throne.
On the Holy throne not recline any Holy things?
On each throne always recline we see, in the middle, the so-called Antimins (the Shroud)on this altar the gospel, in the right side, the altar crossabove, 3 of the ark, the big one, called a PYX, two small Monstrance, a Vessel for chrism.
