There still remained
great numbers of priests serving the Temple in Jerusalem and they were organised into hierarchies and rotas.
Not exact matches
Yes, as a catholic I believe the church at local level should have hand these so - called
priest over the local authorities, also, there has been a
great number of people coming forward and filing lawsuits looking for money, we all know that.
Both Yehoshua were just expressing the prerogatives
of kings and
priests: Exodus 19:6 The first by securing a first step
of sanctification by the slaughter
of even innocent victims, and the second by bringing salvation to a
great number in a less hostile environment.
I'm not even going to mention the large percentage
of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy
of Catholic hierarchy who went to
great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary
number of its
priests
As with lawyers,
priests, doctors, soldiers, professional athletes, or people in a
great many occupations there are a relatively small
number of bad apples who can have a very - outsized impact on the general reputation
of those who work in the occupation.