Fondare 366 Risultati per: dedication of the altar
Therefore, establishing the purification of the temple on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev, we considered it necessary to signify this to you, so that you, likewise, may keep the day of shelters, and the day of the fire that was given when Nehemiah offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar had been built. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests, who at that time were worshippers of God, secretly took the fire from the altar, and they kept it hidden in a valley, where there was a deep and dry pit, and they kept it safe in that place, in such a way that the place would be unknown to all. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
When this had been done, a flame was kindled from them, but it was consumed by the light that shined brightly from the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
And arriving there, Jeremiah found a place in a cave. And he brought both the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense into that place, and he obstructed opening. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
For he also drew upon wisdom magnificently, and so, having wisdom, he offered the sacrifice of the dedication and the consummation of the temple. (2 Maccabees 2, 9)
And similarly, Solomon also celebrated the eight days of the dedication. (2 Maccabees 2, 12)
The truth about Judas Maccabeus, and his brothers, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 20)
And so the priests threw themselves before the altar in their priestly vestments, and they called upon him from heaven, who had established the law about deposits, such that those with whom they had deposited it would keep it safe. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
so much so that now the priests were not devoted to the concerns of services at the altar, but, despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they hurried to become participants of the wrestling school, and of its prohibited injustices, and of the training of the discus. (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
And even the altar was filled with illicit things, which were prohibited by the laws. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
And, having purged the temple, they made another altar. And, taking glowing stones from the fire, they began to offer sacrifices again after two years, and they set out incense, and lamps, and the bread of the Presence. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
And lying prostrate at the pedestal of the altar, they beseeched him to be forgiving to them, but to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, just as the law says. (2 Maccabees 10, 26)
