Sentences with phrase «old dispensation»
The phrase "old dispensation" refers to an old or previous way of doing things, particularly in a religious or legal context. It suggests that there has been a change or update in how things are managed or understood. Full definition
Basic in his thought was the unbroken continuity between the old dispensation and the new.
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Christian fasting and abstinence did not, of course, spring from a ritual distinction between clean and unclean meats, but it was just as deeply embedded in theological conviction as the older dispensation.
So Jesus was baptized of John and signified thereby his fulfillment of the old dispensation and inauguration of the new, though it meant for him also the experience of alienation and death on the cross.
There is a decided contrast between the gospel of the kingdom of heaven and the law of the old dispensation (Matt.
He constantly draws parallels between the old dispensation and the new.
This level of mediation was impossible in the old dispensation.
For lawyers it is evident that the «old dispensation» is unlikely to return (or as legal pundits describe things, there is a «new normal.»).
Change usually produces hand - wringing among those affected (or as T.S. Eliot wrote in The Journey of the Magi: «no longer at ease in the old dispensation.»).
We are — as T.S. Eliot said of the magi — «no longer at ease in the old dispensation.»