Feast of Dedication
Britishnoun
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It was torn by anxiety as to the fate of her boy, her scholar son, unaccountably absent for the first time from the household ceremonies of the Feast of Dedication.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
It is that loud and turbulent Galilean, That came here at the Feast of Dedication, And stirred the people up to break the Law!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
A messenger from Pilate, sent on an errand to the headquarters at Scopus, brings the tidings that Christ is in Jerusalem as a visitor at the Feast of Dedication.
From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton
On the anniversary of this occasion the Feast of Dedication was instituted.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
The Feast of Dedication has been proposed by Kepler and Petavius.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas
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