 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...following passages will prove. Deut. xxv. 1. "If there be a controversy between men, and they come in to judgment that the judges may judge them ; then they...shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked." That is, according to your doctrine, they shall sanctify the righteous ! Job ix. 20. If I justify myself... | |
 | R. SHUFFLEBOTTOM - 1824 - 48 pages
...might come unto me, and I would do him justice, (justify him, judge in his cause.) So in Deut. xxv. ]. If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. That this is the use of the term justify, he proves from the use of the Hebrew and Greek term in the... | |
 | Jacob Catlin - 1824 - 314 pages
...declaration of innocence. This is implied in the instruction given by Moses to the judges of Israel. " If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked." This is the strict meaning of justification by the law. Had man never apostatized, this would have... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment. — Deut. xvii. 15, &c. Josh. i. 8. If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. — Deut. xxv. 1. Prov. xvii. 15. OF MAGISTRATES, &C. [CHAP. XXII. and took bribes, and perverted judgment.-l... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment. — Deut. xvii. 15, &c. Josh. i. 8. If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. — Deut. xxv. 1. Prov. xvii. 15. and took bribes, and perverted judgmcnt.-l Sam.viii. 1.3. Prov. xvii.... | |
 | John McDowell - 1825 - 560 pages
...shalt not wrest judgment ; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift ;" Deut. xvi. 18, 19. "If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked ;" Deut. xxv. 1. " How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked ? Defend the... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...thn not be afraid of tlie pmttr 1 do thai vUek ii good, and than shalt have praise of tltt same: ж If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked, Dent. xrv. 1. The king's favour û toward a wise servant : but his wrath is against him that causeth... | |
 | 1038 pages
...which they are used amongst men. The first passage I shall quote is Dent. xxv. 1, where it is said, " If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked." Here justify evidently signifies " to acquit," and is opposed to pronouncing sentence, or condemning.... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 474 pages
...occasion to remark in another place. The word righteous is a term proper to a court of justice. The law says, If there be a controversy between men, and they...will be qualified by nature to abide such a trial in the sight of God. The law, which should direct him to perfection, serves only to expose his guilt;... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...11 Of tlie immodest woman. 13 Of unjust weight}. 17 '/'</, memory of Amakk is to be blotted out. 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come...shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie... | |
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And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 
