So what exactly does «When you have made and kept
sacred covenants in order to be worthy to go to them», mean?
Not exact matches
The
covenant conception
in the context of asceticism is related to the
sacred militia which determines the entire thought - world.
Though some may find it ironic that the Rav borrowed the language of Kierkegaard and Barth, his formulations are rooted
in the traditional halakhic conception of Torah as part of a
sacred covenant between God and Israel — a
covenant for which the conjugal image is a suitable metaphor.
It could not be otherwise with a religion centered
in a
sacred covenant between God and a whole people and expressed
in a
sacred Law which set forth the will and the purpose of God for this people as a whole.
The words of institution of the Lord's Supper, still heard around the world
in the most
sacred of Christian rites, bear witness to this conviction, «This cup is the new
covenant in my blood» (I Cor.
The undergarments are viewed as a symbolic reminder of the
sacred covenants made
in temple ceremonies, and are viewed as an either symbolic or literal source of protection from the evils of the world.
In the Jewish religious tradition these purity rules formed a closely interlocking network which clearly marked off the
sacred precincts of the Temple, the holy land of Israel, and the
covenant people of God (or groups of the «separated» within the people), from the «profane» world peopled by the «demon - ruled nations» outside.
But let me go back once more to ancient Israel: From the earliest layers of the biblical traditions to the most recent ones, the spokesmen of the God of the
covenant violently repudiated the cult of
sacred sexuality
in all its forms.
Then was born the «Sabbath», so characteristic of the first
covenant, and which foretells the
sacred day of the new and final
covenant [
in Christ].
By the strength of his own person and the power of his own commitment to Yahweh, he returns again, descending the
sacred mountain with the new tables of the
covenant - law
in his hands; and he does not know — tradition elsewhere insists that «the man Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth» (Num.
3 - 34, J) which «remembers» a ritual decalogue, and a somewhat later version (E, having its locus
in the North, not the South as J) which associates the Ethical Decalogue with the
covenant of the
sacred mountain.
The Greenstreet 2016 campaign tour of «Apam Foforͻ» hit the capital of the Upper West region, Wa on Friday, May 13, 2016, where the
sacred covenant is translated
in Walla as «Mwini - Sumbu».
Polygamy was,
in fact, one of the most
sacred credos of Joseph's church — a tenet important enough to be canonized for the ages as Section 132 of The Doctrine and
Covenants, one of Mormonism's primary scriptural texts.
Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is
sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a
covenant —
in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.»