USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

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[SOURCES]
Honor as holy

(A) Consecrate

(B) Sacred

(C) ** Hallow

(D) Devotion

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -to make holy; sanctify; consecrate. to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate: to hallow a battlefield.

Concept note-2: -To hallow is “to make holy or sacred, to sanctify or consecrate, to venerate". The adjective form hallowed, as used in The Lord’s Prayer, means holy, consecrated, sacred, or revered. The noun form hallow, as used in Hallowtide, is a synonym of the word saint.

Concept note-3: -The word “hallow” means sanctify. The same Greek word stands behind both English words. Jesus tells us to pray, “Let your name be sanctified.” Sanctify can mean make holy or treat as holy. When God sanctifies us, it means that he makes us holy.

Concept note-4: -To pray ‘hallowed be Your name’ means to ask God to let His name be worshipped, exalted, honored, and adored on earth as it is in heaven. It is to ask God to so move and act in the world, that people will worship and treasure Him above all else.

Concept note-5: -Some common synonyms of hallow are consecrate, dedicate, and devote. While all these words mean “to set apart for a special and often higher end, ” hallow, often differing little from dedicate or consecrate, may distinctively imply an attribution of intrinsic sanctity.