Bible Dictionary: The Moon: Worshipping of Forbidden to the Jews

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Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
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Book 13 Footnotes
... the Jews for building it, and for worshipping the true ... of time, besides one eclipse
of the moon in the ... such religious Jews, who were utterly forbidden such arts ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/book 13 footnotes.htm

The Second Commandment
... a false god is forbidden; in this, worshipping the true ... to his mind, and that which
he has expressly forbidden? ... in heaven, earth, water,' sun, moon, stars, male ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 2 the second commandment.htm

Psalm LXXIV.
... when Moses was thus wroth with them worshipping and adoring ... would be Gods by means
of the forbidden food ... carnal...."Thou hast made perfect sun and moon:" the sun ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxiv.htm

Period ii. The Post-Apostolic Age: AD 100-AD 140
... fact evident by an act, that is, by worshipping our gods ... has received no wrong, because
it is forbidden to indulge ... of the stars, with the sun and moon, formed a ...
/.../a source book for ancient church history/period ii the post-apostolic age .htm

Whether Sufficient Reason Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies ...
... not to be worshipped, for this was forbidden by the ... who used to offer sacrifices
to the moon at that ... Moses, God forgave the people's sin of worshipping the calf ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether sufficient reason can be.htm

Whether There Can be any Suitable Cause for the Sacraments of the ...
... of the sin they had committed in worshipping a calf ... stones denoted the two hemispheres,
or the sun and moon. ... Thus it is forbidden that he should be blind, ie he ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there can be any 2.htm

Naasseni Ascribe their System, through Mariamne, to James the ...
... But should the Moon pass into concupiscence for Endymion, and ... Worshipping, however,
Cyllenius with especial distinction, they style him ... [339] Or, "forbidden.". ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter ii naasseni ascribe their system.htm

On the Words, Crucified and Buried.
... The moon in the night bears witness; the day bears ... who was sent, and crucified for
us, and worshipping also God ... the bread of the Eucharist was forbidden in the ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xiii on the words.htm

Book ii.
... 8] who, while they accuse us for not worshipping the same ... are the things then that
we are commanded or forbidden? ... the earth, the sun and the moon, the waters ...
//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/against apion/book ii.htm

The Book of Jubilees
... the day" in which he ate the forbidden fruit, one ... about the folly and wickedness
of worshipping idols; and ... ii.); "but the moon confuses and mars the order, and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the book of jubilees.htm

Subtopics

Moon

Moon: Created by God

Moon: Darkening of

Moon: Feast of the New Moon

Moon: Feast of the New Moon: Traffic at the Time of, Prohibited

Moon: Its Influences

Moon: Its Light

Moon: Joseph's Dream Concerning

Moon: No Light of, in Heaven

Moon: Seasons of (Months)

Moon: Shining of