high priest

How To Use high priest In A Sentence

• `All right, I'll tell you some of it, but first, let's get my things put away, before the high priestess comes looking for me. WEB OF DREAMS
• Thompson claimed that his grandmother, who lived in Blyth, Northumberland, was a pagan high priestess, and that she had passed on her powers to him. Sex cult leader jailed for forcing girlfriend into sex with others
• On the farther side of the hypostyle there were still other large halls which led ultimately to the actual sanctuary, or sekos, in which the divinity was represented by a statue or some symbol; only the king, or his representative, the high priest, could enter the sekos. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• The head of the cultus is the head of the whole; the high priest takes the place of the king. Prolegomena
• In the Hebrew text, immediatley after his eulogism of the high priest Simon, the writer subjoins the following fervent prayer: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess. Tiger Woods should chat with David Letterman; Corso mum on Heisman
• The respect in which the synedrial president was held rapidly increased; like Christian patriarchs under Mahometan rule, he was also recognised by the imperial government as the municipal head of the Jews of Palestine, and bore the secular title of the old high priests (nasi, ethnarch, patriarch). Prolegomena
• The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Oliver Platt's performance as a high priest in Sodom is something to be seen to be believed. Archive 2010-01-01
• Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible