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Rufinus admitted that he made more changes to the Homilies on Leviticus than Origen's homilies on the other books of the Pentateuch.He wrote in the translator's preface that the "duty of supplying what was wanted I took up because I thought that the practice of agitating questions and then leaving them unsolved, which he frequently adopts in his homiletic mode of speaking, might prove ...
Contemporary Protestant clergy often use the term 'homily' to describe a short sermon, such as one created for a wedding or funeral. [1]In colloquial, non-religious, usage, homily often means a sermon concerning a practical matter, a moralizing lecture or admonition, or an inspirational saying or platitude, but sermon is the more appropriate word in these cases.
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Judith is a homily written by abbot Ælfric of Eynsham around the year 1000. It is extant in two manuscripts, a fairly complete version being found in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 303, and fragments in British Library MS Cotton Otho B.x, which came from the Cotton Library. The homily is written in Old English alliterative prose. It is ...
In Jewish tradition, the jubilee year was a time of joy, the year of remission or universal pardon. Leviticus 25:10 reads "Thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee." [1] The same concept forms the fundamental idea of the Christian jubilee.
The Catholic theology of Scripture has developed much since the Second Vatican Council of Catholic Bishops ("Vatican II", 1962-1965). This article explains the theology (or understanding) of scripture that has come to dominate in the Catholic Church today. It focuses on the Church's response to various areas of study into the original meaning ...
Leviticus 20 also presents the list in a more verbose manner. Furthermore, Leviticus 22:11–21 parallels Leviticus 17, and there are, according to textual criticism, passages at Leviticus 18:26, 19:37, 22:31–33, 24:22, and 25:55, which have the appearance of once standing at the end of independent laws or collections of laws as colophons ...
The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter. In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός [1] homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng" [2]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. [1]