Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the early church, the treasury of the basilica, into which the alms and offerings of the faithful were carried, and whence they were transferred to the bishop's house.
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In the Semitic languages the Eucharist is called the corbana - it's the same word - corban - 'given to God'.
Archbishop's Sermon at Eucharist Service, Church of England General Synod 2006
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This is corban; when we bring our concerns, our aspirations, our sins our hopes and our intercessions here where we can stand with Christ and let him hold us in his gaze for a moment, then that is corban; whole corbana - given to God.
Archbishop's Sermon at Eucharist Service, Church of England General Synod 2006
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Simply being where the Holy is given to God, where Jesus gives himself as corbana to God, and we by the gift of his spirit are drawn into his giving, into his praying, into his seeing, just for a bit.
Archbishop's Sermon at Eucharist Service, Church of England General Synod 2006
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Let us, then, stand with him; stand before him; let him hold us in his gaze and let us be drawn by that gaze to the Father, so that ourselves - our souls and bodies - are made by his gift a holy and acceptable: corbana.
Archbishop's Sermon at Eucharist Service, Church of England General Synod 2006
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