Sanctuary
The word sanctuary means a place that often contains a temple. It is from the word miqdash[1] It is from the word qadash [2] which is translated sanctify, hallow, dedicate, holy and means "set apart".
A sanctuary should be made of living stones that are set apart, in the world but not of the world. The word qadash
The Cyrus Cylinder only mentions Mesopotamian sanctuarieswith no mention of the temple in Jerusalem, or Judea. While some Cyrus's approach historically as "the first attempt we know about running a society, a state with different nationalities and faiths – a new kind of statecraft".[3] Painting King Cyrus as a monarch with relatively enlightened approach towards cultural and religious diversity may not be fully accurate.
We should ask what is the means and method of these sanctuariesand cults for in that answer we will find what manner and mold will form the clay and souls of men.
When they tried to return from Babylon they had to unlearn the foolishness of Saul and reject the "sacrifice of fools" which was the corban of the pharisees. They had to learn what was forgotten and practice the way of righteousness. Too often the blind guides speak great swelling words while straining at gnats until the mysteries of Truth are cloaked, even hidden, through the use of sophistry.
What were they supposed to be doing with the Urim and Thummim and what was the deeper meaning of this text?
Cyrus professed a desire to restore temples and "cult sanctuaries" across Mesopotamia and the known world. It concludes with a description of how Cyrus repaired the city wall of Babylon and found a similar inscription placed there by an earlier king. It will be absolutely essential to understand that these temples were not just what people thought about Gods or Goddesses.
All these cultures had their altars, sanctuaries, and cults and while they all equally practiced their rituals and ceremonies with fervor and faith their outcomes were not all equal. They may overlap in their intent for the welfare of the people the manner of their means and method by which they were government often made a critical difference in the ends.
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- ↑ 04720 ^שׁדקמ^ miqdash \@mik-dawsh’\@ or ^שׁדקמ^ miqqᵉdash (#Ex 15:17) \@mik-ked-awsh’\@ from 06942; n m; AV-sanctuary 69, holy place 3, chapel 1, hallowed part 1; 74
- 1) sacred place, sanctuary, holy place
- 1a) sanctuary
- 1a1) of the temple
- 1a2) of the tabernacle
- 1a3) of Ezekiel’s temple
- 1a4) of Jehovah
- 1a) sanctuary
- 1) sacred place, sanctuary, holy place
- ↑ 06942 ^שׁדק^ qadash \@kaw-dash’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-sanctify 108, hallow 25, dedicate 10, holy 7, prepare 7, consecrate 5, appointed 1, bid 1, purified 1, misc 7; 172
- 1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to be set apart, be consecrated
- 1a2) to be hallowed
- 1a3) consecrated, tabooed
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to show oneself sacred or majestic
- 1b2) to be honoured, be treated as sacred
- 1b3) to be holy
- 1c) (Piel)
- 1c1) to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate
- 1c2) to observe as holy, keep sacred
- 1c3) to honour as sacred, hallow
- 1c4) to consecrate
- 1d) (Pual)
- 1d1) to be consecrated
- 1d2) consecrated, dedicated
- 1e) (Hiphil)
- 1e1) to set apart, devote, consecrate
- 1e2) to regard or treat as sacred or hallow
- 1e3) to consecrate
- 1f) (Hithpael)
- 1f1) to keep oneself apart or separate
- 1f2) to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God)
- 1f3) to be observed as holy
- 1f4) to consecrate oneself
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate
- ↑ Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum.