Znaleziono 432 Wyniki dla: Golden Altar
with forbidden meats, to the law’s injury, the very altar groaned. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
and the temple was purged of its defilement. They made a fresh altar, struck fire from flint, and offered sacrifice again after two years’ intermission; rose incense, burned lamp, loaves were set out on the sacred table once more. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
they lay prostrate at the altar’s foot, entreating the Lord he would espouse their quarrel, and their foes should be his; the law had promised it. (2 Maccabees 10, 26)
A fitting reward, this, for one that had done so many outrages upon God’s altar; fire of it and ashes of it are sacred, and it was by ashes Menelaus went to his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
Now turn we to one Alcimus, that had been high priest formerly, but had wilfully incurred defilement in the days when folk began consorting with the Gentiles.✻ Little hope was left him, he should live to present himself at the altar again; (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
and swore that if Judas were not handed over to him in chains he would raze yonder sanctuary to the ground, demolish the altar, and consecrate its precincts anew to Bacchus. (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
And with that, Jeremias reached forward to Judas, and gave him a golden sword; (2 Maccabees 15, 15)
and there he called the tribesmen together, ranged the priests about the altar, and sent his summons to the heathen that garrisoned the citadel. (2 Maccabees 15, 31)
Golden ear-ring nor pearl drop fits so well, as wise reproof given to a wise listener. (Proverbs 25, 12)
That, or else yonder cord of silver will be loosed, yonder golden skein unravelled; pitcher broken beside the fountain, wheel lost in the well;✻ (Ecclesiastes 12, 6)
a golden frame it must have, on silver props, with cushions of purple; within are pictured tales of love, for your pleasure, maidens of Jerusalem.✻ (Song of Solomon 3, 10)
More than this, thou hast bidden me raise thee temple and altar, upon this mountain, in the holy city where thou dwellest, model of that holy tabernacle, made long ago, whose pattern was of thy own devising.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 8)
