Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
3 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “priest” →
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
