He vaunted the superiority of the Temple priests with their holocausts and sweet incense and shewbread and golden candlestick, which priests were now with the army.
Let us then cling to the lesson that mercy is better than sacrifice, and is transcendently to be preferred to holocausts of human sacrifice, even when the victims are polluted and cruel idolaters.
It is difficult to imagine a scene which to our unaccustomed senses would have been more revolting than the holocaustsof a great Jewish Festival like that of Solomon's Dedication.
Leviticus Chapter 6 Oblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts and the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin offerings.
And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them.
As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.
In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.
And should forbid holocausts and sacrifices, and atonements to be made in the temple of God.
And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new altar of holocausts which they had made.
And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.
He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.
And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.
That they should offer holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of holocausts continually, morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel.
And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord.
These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord: holocausts and libations according to the rite of every day.
Lands were voted to the conquerors, holocausts to Melkarth, three hundred gold crowns to the Suffet, and his partisans proposed to decree to him new prerogatives and honours.
People repented that they had slighted him, and the peace party itself votedholocausts for Hamilcar's return.
These holocausts were probably extensions of an earlier slaying of a victim representing the spirit of vegetation, though their value in aiding fertility would be still in evidence.
The holocaustsmay be regarded as extensions of the earlier custom of slaying one victim, the incarnation of a vegetation-spirit.
Propitiatory holocausts of human victims had taken the place of the slain representative of a god, but their value in promoting fertility was not forgotten.
This need not mean that the holocausts were quinquennial, for they may have been offered yearly, at Midsummer, to judge by the ritual of modern survivals.
When Noe and his family are rescued from the deluge which had spread over the face of the earth his first act on issuing from the ark, when the waters disappear, is to offer holocausts to the Lord, in thanksgiving for his preservation.
We read that Job was accustomed to offer holocausts to the Lord, to propitiate His favor in behalf of his children, and to obtain forgiveness for the sins they might have committed.
And the days being expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward, the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace offerings: and I will be pacified towards you, saith the Lord God.
And the four tables for the holocausts were made of square stones: one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: to lay the vessels upon, in which the holocaust and the victim is slain.
And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost.
And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the majesty of the Lord filled the house.
And all the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocaustswith a devout mind.
And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.
So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day, both in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch, 8:13.
And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: for the priests were busied in offering ofholocausts and the fat until night, wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron last.
And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God: 27:7.
And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed?
So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.
Beware lest thou offer thyholocausts in every place that thou shalt see: 12:14.
You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.
So that even they who offered the holocausts to the Lord, offered the sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon their head.
To make these holocausts of human beings more ghastly, the pageant was enhanced by processions of exhumed corpses and heretics in effigy.
But the grand total of persons killed in theater holocausts is large and the saddest comment on this list is that most of the victims were from holiday audiences of women and children.
These are the only theater holocaustswhose deadliness surpasses that of the Iroquois.
Jews at this time offered, without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded: so that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts and sacrifices was of small account.
When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.
But sacrifices and holocausts preceded the Law: for it is written (Gen.
But no female animals was offered up to God as a holocaust, although holocausts were offered of both quadrupeds and birds.
For sacrifices and holocaustswere ceremonies of the Old Law, as stated above (Q.
Objection 9: Further, just as holocausts were offered up in honor of God, so also were the peace-offerings and sin-offerings.
I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves and lambs and buckgoats.
Again, Christ is signified by the two altars of holocausts and incense.
Wherefore the Lord commanded the altar of holocausts to be made of brass, and to be conspicuous to all the people; and the altar of incense, which was visible to none but the priests.
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
He "built an altar to the Lord and offered holocausts upon it of all cattle and fowls that were clean.
Young children and infants were offered as holocauststo this cruel god.
And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.
Christendom seemed to have grown delirious, and Satan might well smile at the tribute to his power seen in the endless smoke of the holocausts which bore witness to his triumph over the Almighty.
It was in vain that successive popes ordered the Inquisition to take the most active measures for the suppression of the sect, and that occasional holocausts rewarded their exertions, as when, under Urban V.
And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it.
I will offer up to theeholocausts full of marrow, with burnt offerings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats.
The taking of the Bastille had been the prelude to the massacres of September, and even the horror of these had since paled beside the holocausts of to-day.
He gloated in the holocausts with as much satisfaction as did the most bloodthirsty Jacobin in the Convention.
The holocausts which you are now burning on the altar before Me will not avail to alter My settled purpose.
Thus said Iahvah Sabaoth, the God of Israel: Your holocaustsadd ye to your common sacrifices, and eat ye flesh!
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