Certain priesthoods in the first stage (§ 1 [a]) claimed descent from these prototypes, and it is interesting to observe (1) the growing importance of Aaron in the later sources of "the Exodus," and (2) the relation between Mosheh (Moses) and his two sons Gershom and Eliezer, on the one side, and the Levitical names Mushi (i.e. [Please select]
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Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce. [Please select]
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Sometimes a king struggles against narrow and obstructive priesthoods; sometimes priesthoods uphold the standards of civilization against savage, egotistical, or reactionary kings. [Please select]
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The different priesthoods also had much land, the revenues from which kept up the temples where they ministered. [Please select]
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] PRIESTHOODS Roman priests, who conducted the state religion, did not form a separate class, as in some Oriental countries. [Please select]
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Eventually, however, they gained entrance to Senate and became eligible to the consulship and other magistracies and to the priesthoods. [Please select]
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There is a curious disposition among many modern writers to deprecate priesthoods and to speak of priests as though they had always been impostors and tricksters, preying upon the simplicity of mankind. [Please select]
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Moreover, there is little evidence that the commonalty felt cheated by the priests, or had anything but trust and affection for the early priesthoods. [Please select]
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