Sentences with phrase «profaning holy things»

If we suspect there is an execution behind this story, we can see many telltale signs: typical marks of the victim (he has a physical deformity, he is a foreigner), indications of social conflict (fire sweeping the city), traces of the accusations (incest, profaning holy things), the unanimity of the mob violence (stoning and burying the «seed»), and the positive benefits of the death.

The clown performs the unusual religious function of profaning holy things in order that the holiness of profane things may be revealed.

«Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.»

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«Therefore say to the Israelites, «This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

Paul tells Timothy, via the inspiration of the Holy Spirit: «Remind them (faithful teachers) of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers... but avoid profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.»