Priests
group · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
priests · Adhvaryu · Hotṛ · the blessed ones · the priest · the priests among you · the rulers of all the priests
spoken of as
2 expressionsAdhvaryu and Hotṛ“priests”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The Adhvaryu who, knowing the seven priestly offices, sacrifices in precedence of the Hotṛ and kindles the fire—he elevates the sacrifice and makes the offering non-violent;
the priests1 mention
Adversus Marcionem (Latin)
both that in Leviticus, forbidding the priests to be present even at the last rites of parents ("Over every dead soul," it says, "the priest shall not enter, and over his own father he shall not be defiled"), and that of consecration in Numbers;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Adhvaryu and Hotṛ, priestly officiants whose correct, non-exclusionary performance of the sacrifice is described as elevating it.
The Adhvaryu who, knowing the seven priestly offices, sacrifices in precedence of the Hotṛ and kindles the fire—he elevates the sacrifice and makes the offering non-violent;
Sixty and ninety snares are spread between the Adhvaryu-priest and Agni the Hotṛ.
Here, O distributor, in the distribution of the oblation, let him not exclude the one entitled to a share, let him not harm him.
Exordia
Athenian priests, invoked briefly as a point of comparison for the offhand way the speaker says magistrates are now appointed.
But now, men of Athens, you appoint your magistrates in exactly the same manner as you appoint your priests.
Orations
High priestly figures marked by crowns, purple, and long-haired attendants bearing frankincense.
And I say this not against all — for there are those who do the thing nobly and beneficially, to whom one ought to pour libations and burn incense — but those whom three or four long-haired men declare wise to you, like the priests among you;
Adversus Marcionem
The Levitical priests, forbidden by law from defiling themselves even at a parent's burial, cited as precedent for Christ's saying about burial.
both that in Leviticus, forbidding the priests to be present even at the last rites of parents ("Over every dead soul," it says, "the priest shall not enter, and over his own father he shall not be defiled"), and that of consecration in Numbers;