Sentences with phrase «place of sacrifice»

It is understandable, I think, that many modern churches are shying away from the altar as a monolithic place of sacrifice in favor of a table.

Day 7 Return to Petra for a morning walk up to the High Place of Sacrifice.

The Temple was also the place of sacrifice, and in the Holy Place were located the Bread of the Presence, the Altar of Incense, and the seven branched candlestick which showed that in the Holy Place God was the Light and Life of his People.

The Temple in Jerusalem, built initially by Solomon, by tradition on the site of the sacrifices of Melchizedek and Abraham, became the place of sacrifice for the Jewish people.

The priest is one who (in any religion) offers sacrifice and the altar is the place of sacrifice.

So for now, this Maundy Thursday, as our congregation gathers around its little table the altar of God still stands: it is a place of sacrifice but also a place of refuge for all, and the origin of our table - communion with one another.

The altar was the place of sacrifice and sacrifice was the principal act in Israel's cult.

Isaac carried the wood for the fire up the place of sacrifice just as Jesus Christ started to carry his cross to his place of sacrifice

A mysterious traveler reveals a dream sequence and a dream within a dream where the «ageless» old man recounts his observation of a dreamer in a place of sacrifice, where man dies over and over again.

For the ball court was a place of sacrifice, an arena where the head of the losers would be impaled on a skull rack besides the court and their blood was offered as food for the gods.

I felt uneasy looking at one of the artist's yellow Kevlar Fighting Costume dresses stuffed and laid out on top a stack of adobe bricks, seeing the waist - high adobe platform as a place of sacrifice or burial.