To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...
We make distinctions among the ceremonial law, the dietary law, the civil law, and the moral law. To the Jew, every law commanded by God in the Old Testament was moral in the sense that it had moral ...
While reading the Old Testament, he came across Numbers 19, which outlines a peculiar ritual involving a “red heifer without spot.” This mysterious directive had puzzled theologians and ...
The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which ...