Assertion: altar | /r/MadeOf | stone
Facets:
value: to signify
type: PURPOSE
value: originally
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: c. 395) speaks of the consecration of an altar made of stone (De Christi Baptismate).
text: Scott Cunningham suggests setting up an altar made of three stones: two roughly equal-sized stones as the base and a larger one resting across their tops.
text: St. Gregory of Nyssa speaks of the consecration of an altar made of stone (De Christi Baptismate).
text: In the first temple of Solomon (960 BC) there was a bronze altar, but after the post-exilic reconstruction of Aggeus and Zacharias (420 BC), the altar was made of stone, thereby showing that it no longer followed the prescriptions of Bb and P regarding the bronze altar.
text: St. Gregory of Nyssa speaks of the consecration of an altar made of stone (De Christi Baptismate).
text: Altars were originally made of turf, afterwards of stone, wood or horn; some were round, others square, others triangular.
text: This practise continued until the Middle Ages when, in 517, the provincial council of Epeaune in France decreed that altars should be made of stone to signify “Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone” of Catholicism.
text: The use of a simple table, generally built of wood, instead of an altar made of stone reflects these churches' rejection of the suggestion of sacrifice in the rite: they believe that the Passion of Jesus Christ was a perfect sacrifice for sins made once for all (Hebrews 9:25-10:4).
text: Because atonement is God’s work, the Law specified that an altar made of stones must be made with natural, uncut stones,
text: Since atonement is the work of God, the Law specified that an altar made of stones must be made with natural uncut stones, as Exodus 20:5 says.