Sentences with phrase «functioning as a priest»

Second, one of the primary purposes of the citation of this psalm in the Letter to the Hebrews is to defend Yeshua's priestly role against the charge that he could not function as a priest because he was descended from Judah rather than Levi (Hebrews 7:11 — 17).

It is all one and the same gift: The animals get their food as he gives food to those who can hear his word and can offer him in return the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, functioning as priests on behalf of the whole creation.

As of 2002, Aurelio was no longer functioning as a priest and lived out of state.

Not exact matches

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

Later the ephod, together with the Urim and Thummim, was sublimated and rationalized, becoming part of the priest's symbolical dress and no longer functioning as at first.

With rare exception, he is represented as a singular figure, functioning in the fashion of a judge, priest, or seer.

The sources of the authority of the pastoral ruler Gregory the Great describes are doubtless the same, but as his functions are differently ordered from those of the modern priest so also the bases of his power are mentioned in a different order and with a varying emphasis.

But as the preacher and priest organized these traditional functions in special ways so does the pastoral director.

There has been a tendency ever since to expect «the Christian home» to function as a source of spiritual formation, as the monastery had been the spiritual home for monks and priests.

As a priest, Faith offers me a strategy for how to function and prioritise pastorally.

It may be that the same individual acts both as «medicine man» and «priest»; but his two functions are in some sort distinguished.

The words themselves mean «anointed one» and can refer to someone who has been specially chosen by God to fulfill a function or complete a specific task, such as a king (1 Sam 9:16; 2 Sam 2:4 - 7; 1 Kings 1:34 - 45; Isa 45:1), priest (Exod 28:41; 30:30), or prophet (Isa 61:1).

On the other hand, we see little reason to doubt that Samuel did exercise a multiple function in Israel; that he did in fact combine in himself certain qualities of seer, priest, prophet and judge, consistent, to be sure, with his age and time; and that he performed substantially as represented the function of king - maker in early Israel.

Ambrose states his conviction as to the prophetic function of the bishop very well in a letter to Theodosius: «There is nothing in a priest so full of peril as regards God, or so base in the opinion of men, as not freely to declare what he thinks.»

Following the development of specialization in various societies, these interventions were often conducted by particular members of a community — for example, a chief, priest, physician, and so on — usually as an ancillary function.