English: Agnus Dei
Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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being ex-cused from the more laborious work of theiroffice after the age of fifty. Iu regard topublic affairs, the counsel of the aged was specially to bo regarded. A similar respectwas paid to the aged among the Egyptiansand the Greeks, and receives illustrationsfrom the Oriental customs of the presentday. Among the Arabs it is very seldomthat a youth can be permitted to eat withmen. See Patriarchs. (Exod. xx., 12;Lev. xix., 32; xxvii., 2-7 ; Numb, viii., 25; 1Kings xii., 6-8; Job v., 26; xxxii., 6, 7.) Agnus Dei (Lamb of God). An amuletworn by the Romanists as a safeguard fromevil. It is a small cake of wax stampedwith a lamb bearing the banner of the cross.The wax is selected from such as has beenblessed; it is mixed with balsam and holyoil, and stamped; after which it is baptizedin holy water. Romanists attach a highvalue to the possession of an Agnus, and ac-cordingly these medals are a source of nosmall gain to those from whom they are pur-chased. The ceremony of distribution is
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1 Acts xxii., 25.—3 Exod. xvii., 14; Dent, xxv., 17-19.—a Exod. xxviii., 19; xxxix., 12.—4 Isn. liv., 12; Ezek.xxvii., 16. Agnus Dei. performed with much pomp, and is accom-panied by a special benediction and a num-ber of indulgences. The baptism and ben-ediction of the Agnus Dei is regarded as avery solemn and important ceremony of theRomish Church. It is performed by thePope himself in the first year of his pontifi-cate, and repeated every seventh year there-after. Though their efficacy has not beendeclared by Romish councils, belief in theirvirtue has been strongly and universally es-tablished in the Church of Rome since theseventh or eighth century. Agriculture. The cultivation of the groundwas the first employment of man, and manyBiblical references indicate that it was main-tained up to the days of Moses.1 The regula-tions of the Mosaic law pointed the Israel-itish people to agriculture as the true sourceof national wealth, and gave such directionto their industries as ren
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