Old English · noun
seleness
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
Meaning
tradition
Lindisfarne Gospels, "Gospel of Saint Matthew", chapter 15, verse 2-3
Why your thanes, they go beyond tradition of their elders? Not because they wash their hand with bread they eat. He however answering said to them: Why and you go beyond God's command for tradition of itself?
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