Not content with this, he supplemented his confession with abundant details of his atrocities, as though seeking to make to God an acceptable oblation of his pride.
Still worse was it when a priest, irritated at the smallness of an oblation offered at Easter by a woman of condition, in derision slipped into her mouth the coin in place of the Eucharist.
If the prince's present was one of raw meat, he must needs have it cooked, and make an oblation of it.
Hence this oblation of his son was the best evidence of his supreme love to God, and that all he had was consecrated to his service.
Like the Hebrew mother, every Christian parent will gratefully devote them to Him, and rejoice that they have such a pure oblation to "bring before their God.
Her prayer was answered, and in obedience to her holy vow, she took him, when very young, with her to the Temple, where she offered him up as an oblation to the Lord.
And this is the savoury oblation that we have to present to God, and may have boldness to come nigh because of it.
The form is some sensible action that makes the victim sacred by dedicating it to sacrificial oblation (e.
He hath delivered Himself for us, an oblationand a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweetness.
Consequently, in relation to what is sacrament only, the chief figure of this sacrament was the oblation of Melchisedech, who offered up bread and wine.
He delivered Himself for us an oblationand a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweetness.
Consequently, it was beyond the city and outside the walls, that you may learn it was a universal sacrifice, an oblation for the whole world, a cleansing for all.
By one oblation He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Likewise by His Passion He inaugurated the Rites of the Christian Religion by offering "Himself--an oblation and a sacrifice to God" (Eph.
But the oblation of the sacrifice is multiplied in several masses, and therefore the effect of the sacrifice and of the sacrament is multiplied.
He delivered Himself up for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweetness.
Christ by one oblation hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
On his way Ta-in-ga-ro stopped at the spring in Manitou, and after drinking he cast beads and wampum into the well in oblation to its deity.
I thank God, who has deigned to accept this final oblation from me.
At the end of the service, Martini laid his oblation on the altar, and was turning away to withdraw, when Louis put his hand on his arm.
The bunch represents the old oblation offered annually to the God of the Storm.
A warlike expedition was not undertaken till an oblation had been made, and the recollection of this lingered on in an altered form of superstition, viz.
He then called the brethren, ordered dinner to be provided, Masses to be said, and all of them to communicate as usual; causing also a part of the same Sacrifice of the Lord's Oblation to be carried to the sick boy.
That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to the saints.
That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.
Hence it is said, that then the oblation and sacrifices shall cease (Dan 9:27).
Biel elucidates the idea of sacrifice, deals with the figurative sacrifices of the Old Testament, which found their fulfilment in the clean oblation (Mal.
The common oblationthroughout Christendom formed a sublime bond uniting all the Christian nations of the earth in one holy family.
By the one oblation of the cross He hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified (Hebrews x.
The great sacrifice completed, the minds of the people were relieved, and the result of the next war-party was anxiously looked forward to, to learn if the oblation was accepted by the Great Spirit.
He then told them that a sacrifice must be made to appease the wrath of the Great Spirit, and he recommended that a solemn council be convened and a national oblation be offered up.
On the proclamation of an Italian war, the Peloponnesians excused themselves by a voluntaryoblation of one hundred pounds of gold, (four thousand pounds sterling,) and a thousand horses with their arms and trappings.
Oblation to Bacchus, and procession before the Parthenon.
At the funeral ceremonies of this class, the barber caste perform priestly functions, giving directions and preparing oblation rice.
In memory of the deceased, an annual offering of food is made, and an oblation of water offered on every new moon.
To enjoy such a privilege, would it suffice to repeat that Act of Oblation which you have composed?
I will offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness; I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord.
Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness: I will sing, and speak praises unto the Lord.
Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.
Nor does St. Paul in Hebrews oppose theoblation of the mass when he says that by one offering we have once been justified through Christ.
For Augustine says this was a very ancient heresy of the Arians, who denied that in the mass an oblation was made for the living and the dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oblation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
