<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the altar for slaying and burning of victims used of<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the altar of whole burnt offerings which stood in the court of the priests in the temple at Jerusalem<LI>the altar of incense which stood in the sanctuary or the Holy Place<LI>any other altar<OL TYPE="1"><LI>metaph., the cross on which Christ suffered an expiatory death: to eat of this altar i.e. to appropriate to one's self the fruits of Christ's expiatory death</OL></OL></OL>