When therefore you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has reason to be displeas'd with you:

leave your gift before the altar, go, and first of all reconcile yourself to your brother; then come to offer your gift.

again, if any one swear by the altar he is under no engagement but if he swear by the gift that is upon it, he is bound thereby.

ye blind fools, which is most sacred, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

whoever swears by the altar, swears not only by the altar, but by every thing upon it.

so that you maybe charg'd with all the innocent blood shed upon earth, from the blood of Abel the just, unto the blood of Zacharias, the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

when there appear'd to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the incense-altar.

from the blood of Abel to that of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple: yes, I assure you, this generation shall be responsible for it all.

In the mean time his elder son was in the country. at his return, when he came near home, he heard the musick and dancing:

for considering, as I pass'd along, the deitys, which you adore, I met with an altar that had this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. now that GOD whom you worship without knowing him, is the same that I denounce to you.

for whom he before approv'd, he predispos'd to follow the example of his son, who was to conduct them all as their elder brother;

it was said to her, "the elder shall serve the younger."

but he that has been steady in his purpose, and finds no necessity to alter it; if he is a master of his passion, and is heartily determin'd to keep his virginity, it is well.

don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

consider the custom of the Jews by descent, are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? what say I then?

the elder women as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity.

for he who was there mention'd was of another tribe, none of whom ever gave attendance at the altar.

was not our father Abraham treated as just, in consequence of his actions, when he had attempted to sacrifice his son upon the altar?

When he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintain'd.

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

and the angel took the censer, and having filled it with the fire of the altar, he cast it upon the land: and there was a noise of thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God,

Then there was given me a reed like a rod: with this direction, rise and measure the temple of God, with the altar, and those that worship therein.

he also having a sharp sickle. and another angel came out from the altar, who presided over the fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, "stretch out thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are full ripe."

and I heard another from the altar say, "oh! Lord God almighty, true and just are thy judgments."