Crossword-Solution: AARONITES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Before even the revelation at Sinai was to take place, we read that warning was given to the priests “not to break through” and stand above the people.(1101) On the other hand, the law demands of the Aaronites a peculiar degree of holiness, since “they offer the bread of their God upon the altar.”(1102) Their blood must be kept pure by the avoidance of improper marriages.

Even in the legal system of the rabbis the ancient rights and privileges of the priesthood, dating from the time when they possessed no property, remained inviolate, and their precedence in everything was undisputed.(1105) The glaring contrast between the idea of a universal priesthood of the people and the institution of the Aaronites is explained by a deeper insight into history.

When, however, during the Maccabean wars, the little band of the pious proved themselves to be the true priesthood in their Opposition to the faithless Aaronites, offering their very lives as a sacrifice for the preservation of the true faith in God, the Scriptural word received a new and higher meaning.