Lectures on Jewish Antiquities: Delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 & 1803 |
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... called Elders , Heads , and Judges , and sometimes all Israel , because they were the legal rep- resentation of the whole . This delegated body bore a striking analogy to the popular assembly of antient Rome , to the house of Commons in ...
... called Elders , Heads , and Judges , and sometimes all Israel , because they were the legal rep- resentation of the whole . This delegated body bore a striking analogy to the popular assembly of antient Rome , to the house of Commons in ...
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... called masters of parliament , to assist this body with their best advice . These modern examples may throw much light on our present subject . It has been much disputed whether this Hebrew coun- cil of seventy was a perpetual , or only ...
... called masters of parliament , to assist this body with their best advice . These modern examples may throw much light on our present subject . It has been much disputed whether this Hebrew coun- cil of seventy was a perpetual , or only ...
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... called " king of Je- shurun " or Israel , because under God , their real Sove- reign , he possessed the supreme executive power . But the style of judge is the more usual epithet to describe this officer under the original form of the ...
... called " king of Je- shurun " or Israel , because under God , their real Sove- reign , he possessed the supreme executive power . But the style of judge is the more usual epithet to describe this officer under the original form of the ...
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... called him at the garden gate , next to his lodgings , though they spoke no louder than ordinary , he heard them as distinct- ly , as if they were in the room , and returned as audible an answer . This tube he afterwards wrought so ...
... called him at the garden gate , next to his lodgings , though they spoke no louder than ordinary , he heard them as distinct- ly , as if they were in the room , and returned as audible an answer . This tube he afterwards wrought so ...
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... called king in Jeshurun or Israel . For though the government by kings was not yet erected in that nation , yet the title was in ancient times given to persons of high rank and authority , though they never wore a crown , or appeared in ...
... called king in Jeshurun or Israel . For though the government by kings was not yet erected in that nation , yet the title was in ancient times given to persons of high rank and authority , though they never wore a crown , or appeared in ...
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Page 82 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 292 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 181 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 21 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 304 - And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 305 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 252 - BLOW ye the trumpet, blow ! The gladly solemn sound, Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come : Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.
Page 293 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 133 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.