6/25/2023 0 Comments The testament of mary lighting![]() Kind of like a maternal circumcision - the female’s portion of the blood covenant between Abraham and God.Įvery covenant that involves God will, in the end, have something to do with blood. Among the offerings she brought to the temple, the greatest was the piece of her own flesh, cut from her and forever left behind, for the sake of her covenant with God. In fact, Luke reminds readers of that, when he tells of Jesus’ presentation in the Temple: … just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” Luke 2:23, and Hannah, who had fervently prayed for the gift of a son, was obliging, but it could not have been easy to leave her beloved child behind. It used to be a common thing to dedicate the firstborn to God. Now I, in turn, give him to the LORD as long as he lives, he shall be dedicated to the LORD.” She left Samuel there. I prayed for this child, and the LORD granted my request. After the boy’s father had sacrificed the young bull, Hannah, his mother, approached Eli and said: “Pardon, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood near you here, praying to the LORD. A reflection and prayer for December 22, 2017, Day 20 of Advent Hannah brought Samuel with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and presented him at the temple of the LORD in Shiloh.
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