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Featured Term (selected at random):SACRIFICE The highest form of adoration, in which a duly authorized priest in the name of the people offers a victim in acknowledgment of God's supreme dominion and of total human dependence on God. The victim is at least partially removed from human use and to that extent more or less destroyed as an act of submission to the divine majesty. Thus a sacrifice is not only an oblation. Where an oblation offers something to God, a sacrifice immolates or gives up what is offered. In sacrifice the gift offered is something precious completely surrendered by...

CHAPTER 3 : THE OFFERING OF THE PASSION ENACTED BY CHRIST IN THE SUPPERWe propose to prove in sections I to IV that Christ as Priest, consecrating in the Supper the image of His Passion, offered to God the reality of His Passion. This will be shown as follows: we shall study the Supper in the light of(1) The Passion, I; (2) The ancient covenant and the ancient pasch, II; (3) The "Epistle to the Hebrews, " III; (4) The promise of the Eucharist, IV.Further, our argument will be confirmed in V from certain circumstances of the Supper.[56]§1. The Supper...