单词 | shewbread |
释义 | shewbreadn. Jewish History. The twelve loaves that were placed every Sabbath ‘before the Lord’ on a table beside the altar of incense, and at the end of the week were eaten by the priests alone. In 16th cent. writers sometimes in plural, after the Septuagint and the Vulgate; the Geneva Bible (1557) has shewe loues. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > bread > [noun] > shewbread shewbread1530 face bread1608 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xxv. f. xliiv Thou shalt sett apon the table, shewbred before me allwaye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xii. 4 Haue ye not red..How he [David]..ate the shew breds. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 111 Achimelech wold nocht geue the schewbreid to Dauid. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. H4 Upon this fetuous board doth stand Something for Shew-bread. 1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus vii. 117 The Shew-bread was to be before the Lord continually. In the original it is called The Bread of Faces. The mystery of it was, to shew, that Christ was to be the great Mediator, who should be always in the presence of God, behold his face [etc.]. 1855 E. B. Pusey tr. St. Ephrem in Real Presence (Note S) 413 The shewbread figures the mystery of our sacrifices which are offered through Christ by the Ministers of the Church. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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