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Altar James 2:21 Excerpt The platform upon which offerings are made to the deity. This may include a ritual sacrifice of animals or a burning of incense before God ( Ex 30:1–10 ). The Hebrew word for altar and the verb “to slaughter” both derive from the same root word; they are terms used in connection with the ritual of sacrificing animals to God as a covering for sin. The Greek terms also point to sacrificing animals. The practice was not peculiar to Israel but was widely known in the ancient Middle East. Israel’s immediate neighbors, the Canaanites, had their own altars and rituals. The altar was always a raised-up place.  More Elwell, Walter A., and Philip Wesley Comfort.  Tyndale Bible D ictionary  2001: 32. Print. Tyndale Reference Library.

Altar James 2:21 Excerpt The platform upon which offerings are made to the deity. This may include a ritual sacrifice of animals or a burning of incense before God ( Ex 30:1–10 ). The Hebrew word for altar and the verb “to slaughter” both derive from the same root word; they are terms used in connection with the ritual of sacrificing animals to God as a covering for sin. The Greek terms also point to sacrificing animals. The practice was not peculiar to Israel but was widely known in the ancient Middle East. Israel’s immediate neighbors, the Canaanites, had their own altars and rituals. The altar was always a raised-up place.  More Elwell, Walter A., and Philip Wesley Comfort.  Tyndale Bible dictionary  2001 : 32. Print. Tyndale Reference Library.

Altar, Latin Church We can never understand the depth and continuity of the religious life of the Jews without remembering that from the beginning a religious atmosphere surrounded the child of Jewish parents. “These are the things by which a man enjoys the fruits in this world, but their possession continued for the next; to honor father and mother, pious works, peace-making between man and man, and the study of the law, which is equivalent to them all.” Devotion to the law constituted, in the esteem of the Jews, the chief aim in life. Jewish parents were more concerned to give their children a knowledge of the law than they were to leave them an earthly inheritance. Among the memorable sayings of the Talmud there is one to the effect that “Knowledge of the law may be looked for in those who have sucked it in at their mother’s breast.” Of what the true mothers in Israel were can be known by studying the lives of the mothers of Zebedee’s children, and of Mark, of Dorcas, of Lydi...