They performed rituals just as God performed rituals, wearing fringes as did he, putting on phylacteries just as God put on phylacteries. |
The Council of Laodicea forbade ecclesiastics to wear amulets and phylacteries, on pain of degradation. |
I drink, I smoke on the Sabbath, I do not lay the phylacteries. |
Their phylacteries and fringes were given as tactile reminders of who they are-covenant children of the uniquely sovereign God. |
His devotions over, he hurriedly took the phylacteries from his head and hand. |
The father was put in prison, where he committed suicide by hanging himself with his phylacteries. |