Priesthood

(noun.) the body of ordained religious practitioners.

校对:韦恩

• But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the days of ignorance there had been an extraordinary willingness to believe the Catholic priesthood good and wise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The primary duty of this priesthood was concerned with the worship of and the sacrifices to the god of the temple. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His innovation had manifestly raised the suspicion and hostility of the priesthood of Bel. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The power of a priesthood is a power over their own people alone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Within the priesthood, however, a certain amount of thinking went on at a rather higher level than that. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One portion of the men go into the military, another into the priesthood, and the rest into the shoe-making business. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This brought him into conflict with the official religion and the priesthood. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Learning was not indeed so complete a withdrawal from ordinary life as initiation into a priesthood, but it was still something in that nature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You could have no intellectual life at all, you could not get access to literature or any knowledge except through the priesthood. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Men sought fresh forms of righteous living outside the monasteries and priesthood. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The priesthood can gather its people together for war, but its traditionalism and all its methods unfit it for military control. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No doubt there were great differences between temple and temple and cult and cult in the spirit and quality of the priesthood. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But in bringing in the irreligious Aryans, the ancient priesthood was paying too highly for the continuation of its temple services. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Moreover, there is little evidence that the commonalty felt cheated by the priests, or had anything but trust and affection for the early priesthoods. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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