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Not in every place, brethren, are the daily sacrifices offered, or the peace-offerings, or the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings, but in Jerusalem only.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Atonement sin-offerings in particular (Leviticus 16: 27).
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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Gifts are thank-offerings (eucharistic); sacrifices are sin-offerings (expiatory).
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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The blood of bulls and of goats was used in sin-offerings on the Day of
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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The assistance and protection of the god of war was always solemnly invoked before the departure of a Roman army for the field of battle, and any reverses of fortune were invariably ascribed to his anger, which was accordingly propitiated by means of extraordinary sin-offerings and prayers.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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Obj. 3: Further, in the sin-offerings of the Old Law, a he-goat was mostly offered for the sin of a prince, a she-goat for the sin of some private individual, a calf for the sin of a priest, as we gather from Lev.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Levites, their laws of ceremonial purity, their imageless worship, their sin-offerings etc., especially when viewed in the light of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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When this altar was built up, before serving for Divine worship, it was solemnly consecrated by an unction with holy oil and by daily anointings and aspersions with the blood of the sin-offerings for seven days.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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At its four upper corners were four "horns", likewise overlaid with brass, which probably served to hold the flesh of the victims heaped upon the altar In the ease of sin-offerings, the priest put some of the blood of the victim upon these horns, they were also a place of refuge, as is to be inferred from Ex, xxi, 14.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The significant ceremony observed on this solemn Day of Atonement does but give a greater prominence to that need of satisfaction and expiation which was present in all the ordinary sin-offerings.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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