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Idolatry is one of three sins (along with adultery and murder) the Mishnah says must be resisted to the point of death. [27] By the time the Talmud was written, the acceptance or rejection of idolatry was a litmus test for Jewish identity: [28] “Whosoever denies idols is called a Jew."
Idolatry is one of three sins (along with adultery and murder) the Mishnah says must be resisted to the point of death. [61] By the time the Talmud was written, the acceptance or rejection of idolatry was a litmus test for Jewish identity: [62] "Whosoever denies idols is called a Jew". [63] "Whosoever recognizes idols has denied the entire ...
t. e. " Thou shalt not commit adultery " (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִנְאָף, romanized:Lōʾ t̲inʾāp̲) is found in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible. It is considered the sixth commandment by Roman Catholic and Lutheran authorities, but the seventh by Jewish and most Protestant authorities. What constitutes adultery is not plainly ...
Mammon (Aramaic: מָמוֹנָא, māmōnā) in the New Testament is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke both quote Jesus using the word in a phrase often rendered in English as "You cannot serve both ...
The letter is actually a harangue against idols and idolatry. [28] Bruce M. Metzger suggests "one might perhaps characterize it as an impassioned sermon which is based on a verse from the canonical Book of Jeremiah." [29] That verse is Jer 10:11, the only verse in the entire book written in Aramaic. [30]
The preface of the Law-maker: ’’I am the Lord thy God,’’ v. 2. Herein, 1. God asserts his own authority to enact this law in general: "I am the Lord who command thee all that follows." 2. He proposes himself as the sole object of that religious worship which is enjoined in the first four of the commandments.
Idolatry is prohibited by many verses in the Old Testament, but there is no one section that clearly defines idolatry.Rather there are a number of commandments on this subject spread through the books of the Hebrew Bible, some of which were written in different historical eras, in response to different issues.
v. t. e. Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17:5 as " Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth " (Greek: μυστήριον ...