If, therefore, you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,

leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, becomes a debtor.

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the temple; yes, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

For as I was passing through, and looking attentively at the objects of your worship, I dis covered also an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I make known to you.

Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?

Look at Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers with the altar?

For he of whom these things are said, belongs to another tribe, from which no one attended upon the altar.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had borne:

And another angel came, and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, that he might offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it into the earth; and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake.

And the sixth angel sounded: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God,

And a reed like a rod was given to me; and it was said: Rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

And another angel that had power over fire, came out from the altar; and he cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, and said: Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are fully ripe.

And I heard a voice from the altar saying: Even so; Lord God Al mighty, true and just are thy judgments.