Meaning of sista smörjelse | Babel Free

Definitioner

extreme unction, last rites

Exempel

“[H]an skadades så alllvarligt att en präst gav honom hans sista smörjelse.”

He was injured so badly that a priest gave him his extreme unction.

“På avdelning I [...] är dödligheten [...] skyhög. [...] Är det sjukhuspastorn som med sina sista smörjelser skrämmer ihjäl patienterna?”

In ward I, the mortality rate is sky-high. Is it the hospital chaplain who, with his last rites, is scaring the patients to death?

“Med tiden gavs de sjukas smörjelse mer och mer exklusivt åt dem som var nära döden. Därför fick den namnet "Sista smörjelsen".”

Over time the Anointing of the Sick was conferred more and more exclusively on those at the point of death. Because of this it received the name "Extreme Unction."

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