living stones
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In that part of our work it will also be ascertained that altars were called living stones, from a belief that a portion of divine spirit resided in them.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ....
From The Harp of God by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford
Faith builds us into the rock; but He is a living Stone, and we are living stones, and the life of the foundation rises up through all the courses of the great temple.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
Give Scriptural proof that the members of the Christ are called "living stones".
From The Harp of God by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford
They are lively or living stones, built up into a spiritual house.
From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by Knowles King
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