This was their formal investiture with official rights; although not yet performing service, it was as priests that they received these; and their hands, swayed by those of Moses, solemnly waved them before the Lord in formal presentation, after which the pieces were consumed by fire.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
But that liberal monarch changed this, and gave the schools into the hands of the most capable individuals, whether they were priests or otherwise.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He claims to be a Greek and Latin scholar, and he is attempting to show that the priests have so translated the Bible that it is a deception and a fraud.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs