The order of the Priesthood was not so well known then as now.
Thus the house was constructed to suit and accommodate the different quorums of the Priesthood and worship peculiar to the Church.
The Priesthood was organized according to the proper order.
At this conference the various quorums of the Priesthood were presented to the people for their action.
If any man choose the evil he will dwindle, especially if he has been called to the holyPriesthood of the Son of God.
He possessed great natural force and strong will power, yet in his submission to the Priesthood and obedience to the laws of God he set a pattern to the whole Church.
One evening when they had met together for this purpose, the grand revelation on Priesthood (now forming the first half of Section 107 of the book of Doctrine and Covenants) was given.
The Priesthood was reorganized and the Church set in order, in the same manner as had been done in Kirtland.
His heart-strings might be torn, his feelings crucified and sawn asunder, but so long as his faith in God and the Priesthood remained, heaven helping him, he would try and do as he was told.
Footnote 128: The priesthood was not hereditary, nor did it form a caste.
Then there was a member of the priesthood entitled "man of the dark house.
The Icelandic svartr is more precisely rendered by the identical English swarthy than by the Latin niger.
Sidenote: Those stories are of little value;] It is not my purpose to weary the reader with a general discussion of these and some other legends or rumours of pre-Columbian visitors to America.
In the spring of 1012 the party sailed for Brattahlid in the ship of the murdered brothers, which was the larger and better of the two.
Of the Jewish priesthood and kingdom, which, although promised to be established for ever, did not continue; so that other things are to be understood to which eternity is assured.
This, therefore, is made a sign of the change of the priesthood from this man's house, by which it is signified that the priesthood of Aaron's house is to be changed.
Of those things which a man of God spake by the Spirit to Eli the priest, signifying that the priesthood which had been appointed according to Aaron was to be taken away.
For we see that priesthood has been changed; and there can be no hope that what was promised to that house may some time be fulfilled, because that which succeeds on its being rejected and changed is rather predicted as eternal.
For the death of this man's sons signified the death not of the men, but of the priesthood itself of the sons of Aaron.
For in that priesthood after the order of Aaron men did not come to the temple or altar of God for the purpose of worshipping the priest.
In Italy, besides, the priesthood could count on making rather more docile Christians of the invaders than it had done of the previous inhabitants; so that Christian Rome, once overrun, must needs remain so.
In germ the Teutonic priesthood was extremely powerful, being the judiciary power from which there was no appeal.
And in England then, as in Europe now, many entertained the fancy that priesthood was a higher thing than gentility.
He is probably right; but he does not guess that this was but the degenerate continuity of the more democratic priesthood of the Middle Ages.
Here the red Cross, for still the Cross is here, Though sadly scoffed at by the circumcised, Forgets that Pride to pampered priesthood dear; Churchman and Votary alike despised.
It is satisfactory to find that all the priesthood do not resemble those of Certaldo, and that one of them who did not possess the bones of Boccaccio would not lose the opportunity of raising a cenotaph to his memory.
The characteristic function, however, of the Jewish priesthood was their ministry in public worship, in which they represented the people before Jehovah.
This priesthood for individuals is exercised by many a Christian who has no gifts of public utterance.
The chronicler dwells upon the maintenance of the legitimate priesthood and the prescribed ritual as the natural expression and clear proof of the devotion of the men of Judah to their God.
The Israelite priesthoodmust be held to include the Levites.
At the same time the king as well as the priesthood might lead the people in praise and prayer, and the Temple psalmody was not confined to the Levitical choir.
Otherwise the Christian priesthood is required to represent the people not in symbol, but in reality, to carry not the blood of dead victims into a material Holy of holies, but living souls into the heavenly temple.
But this Christian priesthood is not confined to public service; as the priest offered sacrifice for the individual Jew, so the man of spiritual sympathies helps the individual to draw near his Maker.
A priesthood or any other official ministry is often wanting in elasticity; it is necessarily attached to an established organisation and trammelled by custom and tradition.
The heads of the priesthood provided three hundred oxen and two thousand six hundred small cattle for the priests, and the chiefs of the Levites five hundred oxen and five thousand small cattle for the Levites.
The priesthood and the Levites must be richly endowed; the honour of Israel and of Jehovah is concerned in their having cities, tithes, first-fruits, and offerings.
The next characteristic of the priesthood is not so much in accordance with Christian theory and practice.
For I am well known as a frequenter of his rites, my worship of him is no new thing, my priesthood has received the smile of his favour, and ere now I have expressed my veneration for him both in prose and verse.
Carthage decreed a statue in his honour (Florida 16), and conferred on him the chief-priesthood of the province.
Yes: for he cited thepriesthood I had undertaken, and showed that I had attained the highest honour that Carthage can bestow.
There was even a new order[3] of priesthood instituted, known as the "priesthood of the beneficent gods.
The kings, however, periodically attempted to diminish the power of the priesthood by nominating their own relatives or adherents to its principal offices.
As we have already observed, the god of the capital of Egypt for the time being was the national deity, and when this lot fell to the fortune of Amen his priesthood took full advantage of it.
His priesthood had become by far the most powerful and wealthy in the land, and even rivalled royalty itself.
The shrines of the god languished for want of attendants, and even the higher ranks of the priesthood itself suffered a good deal of hardship.
Budge goes so far as to suggest that I-em-hetep was the deified form of a distinguished physician who was attached to the priesthood of Ra, and who flourished before the end of the rule of the kings of the Third Dynasty.
This was by no means pleasing to the worshippers of Amen, whose priesthood was recruited from the noblest families in the land.
Even foreign intercourse failed almost entirely to break down the religious conservatism ofpriesthood and people.
She is mentioned only once in the Book of the Dead in the Theban Recension, which is not a little strange considering the reputation she must have enjoyed with the priesthood of Amen.
The holy priesthood must offer up spiritual sacrifices.
From Christ, the great High Priest, "consecrated after no carnal commandment," believers rise into a holy priesthood by a majestic investiture that is higher than the ordination of Aaron.
And it is absolutely necessary that this grace should be cultivated if we would either fulfil the mission of our priesthood or abide in the Divine presence for ever.
It is remarkable of this spiritual priesthood that it descends in no particular succession, nor limits its privileges to any exclusive genealogy.
The services of the holy priesthoodare to be "acceptable to God through Jesus.
To thee the Priesthood of the Lyre belong-- They hear Religion and reply in Song!
Only to him who serveth at the shrine, The priesthood can belong!
Arician priesthood to pluck it before he could slay the priest?
Once a year the Iroquois priesthood supplied the people with a new fire.
Weary of the government of their priests, which drew on them misfortunes and bloody defeats, the descendants of Abraham demanded kings; but, under these, the state was perpetually torn with disputes between the priesthood and the government.
The latter, according to the custom of the priesthood in all countries, made war on a sect which attacked their Gods, and menaced their temples with a general desertion.
And this suspicion was encouraged by the Jewish priesthood which began to hate the young teacher whose opposition to their tyranny and formalism was quite marked.
Tradition has it that the corrupt priesthood profited by the sale of these "privileges" granted to this horde of traffickers in the Temple precincts.
This was spoken just before the law gave the priesthood into the hands of one tribe; and thus we learn that Levi and Aaron were not to supplant the nation, but to represent it.
It is important to observe that the only book of the New Testament in which the priesthood is discussed dwells quite as largely upon the difference as upon the likeness between the Aaronic and the Messianic priest.
But thus it came to pass that an official, a clique, perhaps a family, was chosen from among men in things pertaining to God, and the institution of the priesthood was perfected.
In one sense thispriesthood belongs to Christ alone.
The tabernacle being complete, the priesthood has to be provided for.
But just as the furniture is treated before the shrine, and again before the courtyard, so the vestments are provided before the priesthood is itself discussed.
The priesthood and the shrine tell them of sin and pardon, exclusion and hope; but that hope is a common heritage, which none may appropriate without his brother.
A priesthood of that great line might seem to have earned its office, and to claim special access to God, like the heathen priests, by virtue of some special desert.
We shall hereafter see that priesthood is a function of redeemed humanity, and that all limitations upon it were for a season, and due to human shortcoming.
In another sense it belongs to all who are made one with Him, and therefore a kingly priesthood unto God.
A strong priesthoodalways means a feeble people, most of all when they are of different blood.
And it also establishes the great doctrine that priesthood was held not by a superior caste, but on behalf of the whole nation, in whom it was theoretically vested, and for whom the priest acted, so that they were "a nation of priests.
The whole idea and thing of a priesthood would be repugnant to Buddhism.
A religion without a priesthood seems to us an impossibility, and yet here it is so.
There is no idea of priesthood about it at all, for by a priest we understand one who has received from above some power, who is, as it were, a representative on earth of God.
They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, that they may do the office of priesthood unto Me.
The Apostle also observes that the priesthood of the New Law was substituted for that of the Old Law.
Of the same order is the socialist who would make use of a faith he intends to destroy and a priesthood whose claim is offensive to him on his way to what he calls the organization of society.
The Levite agrees to the theft and accepts the offer ofpriesthood under them.
Christianity thus derived from Judaism the complete assurance that in ruthlessly exterminating all thaumaturgy save that of its own priesthood it was obeying the unquestioned command of God.
Returning home, he avoided his father's house, and commenced preaching to the people; but this was not permissible to a layman, so he entered the priesthood and the severe Cistercian Order.
For this Alvaro Pelayo tells us that the priesthood were accountable, and that, in comparison with them, the laity were holy.
When brought up in judgment to be degraded from the priesthoodhe refused to kneel before the bishop, saying that heretics are not to be knelt to.
Promotion from the priesthood to the throne is an event so unusual in any country except Siam, that it might seem full of risk.
He died calmly, preserving to the end that philosophic composure to which his training in the Buddhist priesthood had accustomed him.
The people, seeing these savage non-essentials insisted upon by the priesthood as something sacred and necessary unto Salvation, turn skeptic and reject religion altogether because it is encumbered by ridiculous rubbish.
Bigotry has quailed beneath the ringing blows of your iconoclastic hammer, dogmatism become more humble and the priesthood well-nigh forgotten to prate of a hell of fire in which the souls of unbaptized babes forever burn.
There never was a religion instituted upon the earth that the priesthood failed to transform into arrant folly, to debase until it finally fell into disrepute.
The Jewish priesthood gradually adopted the old Parsi doctrine of Heaven and Hell--a doctrine unrecognized by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and having no place in the theology of Moses.
The priesthood of every religious cult has manifested a propensity to magnify venial faults into cardinal sins and thereby bring worship into contempt by trifling.
About this time the Jewish priesthood began to take kindly to the doctrine of future rewards and punishments.
When France insulted her priesthood and crowned a courtesan as Goddess of Reason in Notre Dame, Paris was a maelstrom and the nation a chaos in which Murder raged and Discord shrieked.
Priesthood That the belief in spirits is the basis of Igorot religion is shown in the fact that each person or each household has the necessary power and knowledge to intercede with the anito.
The employment of Purohitas by kings as their substitutes in the performance of sacrificial functions is to be regarded as the beginning and the oldest form of the priesthood in India.
Having ceased to produce poetry, the priesthood transferred their creative energies to the elaboration of the sacrificial ceremonial.
This conceit evidently pleased the fancy of a priesthood becoming more and more addicted to far-fetched speculations; for in the cosmogonic hymns we find reciprocal generation more than once introduced in the stages of creation.
No sooner had the priesthood become hereditary than the development of a caste system began, which has had no parallel in any other country.
Fear wants to know the future, and astrology and priesthood are synonymous terms, since the business of the priest has always been to prophesy, a profession he has not yet discarded.
And this brings us up to that paragraph in the "Cosmos" where Humboldt says: "I perceive a period when the true priesthood will not be paid to defend a fixed system of so-called crystallized truth.
The twelfth foundation is the everlastingpriesthood of Christ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priesthood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: call; church; ministry; pastorate; presbytery; priesthood; pulpit; rabbinate; vocation
