Of Christ's Circumcision, and of the Other Legal Observances Accomplished in Regard to the Child Christ 38.
Law," we shall have at the same time to inquire about the other legal observances accomplished in regard to the Child Christ.
Further, legalobservances ought not to be continued in the time of grace.
However, this custom of the Greeks is not unreasonable both on account of its signification, to which Gregory refers, and in detestation of the heresy of the Nazarenes, who mixed up legal observances with the Gospel.
Thirdly, on God's part, whose determination regarding the Passion of Christ, foretold in the Scriptures and prefigured in the observances of the Old Testament, had to be fulfilled.
If the two Churches were thus the same in fundamentals, they were also one and the same in such plain consequences as were contained in those fundamentals and in such natural observances as outwardly represented them.
The latter indeed lived in adverse circumstances and do not appear to have conformed with great strictness or accuracy to the observances which had been agreed upon.
This universal culture was certainly of a peculiar kind, and imposed more troublesome observances than the culture of our day.
Inwardly, the ideal of holiness governs the whole of life by means of a net of ceremonies and observances which separate the Jew from the natural man.
The same contact may be observed in the prohibition of certain observances of mourning (xix.
Among some of the tribes with highly developed ceremonial observances "men and women, having clear resonant voices and good musical intonation, compose the choirs which lead the singing in ceremonies and are paid for the services.
Such ascetic and self-tormenting observances are the inevitable issue of the theological spirit, if that spirit is unchecked.
The observances of the Company at elections, funerals, obits, and pageants were quaint, friendly, and clubable enough.
This man, mentioned by Pope in his "Epistle to Lord Bathurst," had been a scrivener, famed for his religious observances and his horror of avarice.
Hence even for the Brahmin, who is as a god to the other castes there is such a weight of formalities and observances that life is not worth living for him.
External observances and the service of truth and goodness are for the most part difficult to combine; the one excludes the other.
The superstitious observances of public or private rites were carelessly practised, from education and habit, by the followers of the established religion.
False apostles," mentioned in Acts 15, who would have blended Jewish observances with Christianity, and have brought the converts into misery and thraldom.
Rose, "Hindu Birth Observancesin the Punjab," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, xxxvii.
We must, however, guard against the notion that ceremonial observances are confined to Tibet and Northern regions.
We now pass on to a description of the observances usual during the period of Vassa (see pp.
Hence among Buddhists the ceremony of marriage is very simple, and has no religious character, or at any rate no complicated religious observances connected with it, as among the Hindus[167].
And I do charge them also to use this my kindness to them with moderation, and not to show a contempt of the superstitious observances of other nations, but to keep their own laws only.
Yet their religious observances partake of one or two features which are entirely Greek, and would not be authorized by Romish Church dignitaries in any other country.
At noon the preliminary observances were concluded, the assembly moved to the chapel, and the bishop of Nemours advanced to the altar to unite Raoul Boismonard du Guesclin and Thérèse Chiron de la Peyronie in the holy bonds of wedlock.
When there is this living that awakens and renews trust, the formal teaching and religious observances of the church both receive and give additional meaning.
Every relationship has its devotional rituals andobservances which are important to it.
Pir Badshah was very orthodox and punctilious in all the observances of his religion, so the two boys were not to learn anything else until they had sat at the feet of the village Mullah, and learnt to read the Quran.
My host now begged me to make a few calls with him, explaining, as we drove along, the strict observances paid to this day throughout the State, and tracing the excellent custom to the early Dutch colonists.
And yet, notwithstanding, by observing so anxiously these little niceties they did not run into any superstition, because they never varied from nor exceeded the observancesof their ancestors.
A visit to some of our emancipation celebrations or Lincoln's birthday observances is sufficient to convince one of the prevalence of this sentiment.
There were numerous small observances regarding the personal conduct of freemen.
Such instances are unusual even for this dread disease, and the funeral observances usually expose large numbers of the people to infection.
Some of these observances appear to be purely magical, while others are associated with the consulting of omens, acts of sacrifice, propitiation, and finally of thanksgiving.
Finally, the ceremonial observances of the Tinguian, so far as the rice is concerned, are much more extensive and intricate than have been described for the Igorot.
The time is approaching, then, when our system of social observances must pass through some crisis, out of which it will come purified and comparatively simple.
And so the artificial observances of the dining-room and saloon, in proportion as they are many and strict, extinguish that agreeable communion which they were originally intended to secure.
But perhaps it is in that class of social observances comprehended under the term Fashion, which we must here discuss parenthetically, that this process of corruption is seen with the greatest distinctness.
How delightful a picnic of friends, who forget all observances save those dictated by good nature!
Who then shall say that the reform of our system of observances is unimportant?
He calls the legal observances "beggarly rudiments," and anathematises every one who preaches to the Galatians any other gospel than his own.
There is no other influence so pernicious to social observances as this; and it must be strictly kept in check.
All these observances were dispensed with in the case of the Emperor Sushun.
But even the two combined convey no idea of the labyrinth of observances which constituted the ceremonial.
The bestowing of titles and rewards naturally occupied much attention, and to religious observancesscarcely less importance seems to have been attached.
Subsequent generations of sovereigns followed this example, and to this day one of the features of the New Year's observances is a historical discourse in the palace.
The details of this curious legend deserve attention for the sake of their close relation to the observances of the Shinto cult.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "observances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
