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Of Rooms Prepared and Bread Broken Among Guests

In the sacred chronicles that recount the unfolding of God’s redemptive plan, a profound and tender theme frequently emerges: of rooms prepared and bread broken among guests. This speaks not merely to the customs of ancient hospitality, though it certainly encompasses them, but to a deeper spiritual truth—that in the act of providing a space and sh...

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Religion in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

re-lij'-un: "Religion" and "religious" in Elizabethan English were used frequently to denote the outward expression of worship. This is the force of threskeia, translated "religion" in Acts 26:5; Jas 1:26,27 (with adjective threskos, "religious"), while the same noun in Col 2:18 is rendered "worshipping" ("cult" would give the exact meaning). ...

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Religion in Naves Topical Bible

FALSE De 32:31-33 See IDOLATRY See INTOLERANCE See TEACHERS, FALSE -FAMILY See FAMILY -NATIONAL Supported by taxes Ex 30:11-16; 38:26 Priests supported by the State 1Ki 18:19; 2Ch 11:13-15 Subverted by Jeroboam 1Ki 12:26-33; 2Ch 11:13-15 Established by Jeroboam 1Ki 12:26-33 -NATURAL Job 12:7-16; 35:10-12; 37:1-24; Ps 8:1-9; 19:1-6;...

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Religion in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

RELIGIOUS. James 1:26-27, threeskos, threeskeia; distinct from eulabees ("reverent"; from the Old Testament standpoint; "cautious fear toward God"), "devout" (Luke 2:25); theosebees, "godly"; eusebees, "pious." "If any man seem a diligent observer of the offices of religion (threeskos) ... pure and undefiled religion (not the sum total or inne...

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Circumcised on the 8th Day

JEWISH RITES AND OFFERINGS AT BIRTH OF A CHILD Jewish boys were circumcised eight days after birth. The one who Circumcised the child spoke the following words: "Blessed be the LORD our GOD, who has sanctified us by His precepts, and given us circumcision." Then the father of the boy would go on with these words: "Who has sanctified us by His prec...

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Purification of the Mother

After childbirth, the Jewish mother passed through a period of purification of seven days for a boy and fourteen days for a girl, and then she still remained at home thirty-three days for a boy, and sixty-six days for a girl. Then she was to go up to the Temple to make her childbirth offerings. If she was rich she would bring a lamb to be offered, ...

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The Father as Priest of the Household

THE FATHER AS PRIEST IN PATRIARCHAL TIMES IN THE DAYS of the early patriarchs, the father was the priest for the whole family, and this honor and responsibility of exercising the priesthood usually was bestowed upon the first-born son upon the death of the father. This practice continued until the law of Moses transferred this right to the tribe o...

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Welcoming Fellow Believers

ENTERTAINING FELLOW-BELIEVERS IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES In the days of the apostles, great importance was attached to the religious duty of believers entertaining fellow believers who came to their town. In time of persecution, such hospitality would be of great value. Luke tells of one such time of persecution thus: "Therefore they that were scatte...

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Gathering Places for Christians

CHRISTIAN GATHERINGS IN THE HOME The early gathering place for Christian worship was in the home. The earliest excavation of a church by archaeologists, where a date has been ascertained, is of a room within a house that was set apart for worship, and was thus furnished as a chapel. It dates back to the third century A.D. It seems difficult for th...

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Altars in Homes

The altar. The religion in the homes of those early days largely centered about an altar upon which animal sacrifices were offered up to GOD. Thus when Abraham came into the land and had pitched his tent in the vicinity of Bethel, the Scriptural record says of him, "And there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord" ...

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