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Pulpit

A late 18th century pulpit in a small Roman Catholic church
in Spielfeld[?], Styria, Austria

In a church, a pulpit (from Latin pulpitum "scaffold", "platform", "stage") is a small elevated platform where a member of the clergy stands in order to deliver a sermon.

From the pulpit is often used metaphorically for something which is said with official church authority.

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