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1101 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 111.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… some legal purification. Such a witness could not be excluded, even if David had chosen to betray his secret to the priest. Once committed to the fatal wrong …

1102 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 163.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… . Viewed legally, and, so far as Israel was concerned, even morally, the neglect of any single ordinance involved a breach of all, and indeed, in principle, that …

1103 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 171.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… Jewish legalism, however, admits the plea of exceptional necessity in this instance. Tradition represents Elijah as a disciple of Ahijah, the Shilonite …

1104 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 111.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… his legal right in the matter ( Leviticus 25:39; comp. Matthew 18:25 ), although his action was unjustifiably harsh and selfish.The Athenian and Roman law equally …

1105 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 22.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… strictly legal, Jehoiada acted in the most careful manner, having first consulted with, and secured the co-operation of, all the estates of the realm. Similarly …

1106 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 45.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… a legal provision that the relatives of regicides were executed along with the actual criminals; comp. Cicero ad. Brut. 15. In the same heathen spirit had Jehu …

1107 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 118.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… this legal provision of an after-Passover, Hezekiah resolved to avail himself. We mark as specially interesting in itself, and as foreshadowing great changes …

1108 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 44.10 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal. This gentleman, though brought up a Roman Catholic, was totally free from superstition; he united great talents with great bravery; and was the skilful …

1109 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 45.4 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal sent to the Jesuits a peremptory order to pay the money immediately. The superior of the Jesuits returned for answer that for the clergy to pay money …

1110 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 45.6 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal neither feared nor respected the Inquisition. The chief of the Dominicans sent word to the military commander that his order was poor, and had not …

1111 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 45.9 (John Foxe)

… de Legal’s house, with the silver apostles and saints, in a mournful manner, having lighted tapers with them and bitterly crying all the way, “heresy, heresy …

1112 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 45.10 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal, hearing these proceedings, ordered four companies of grenadiers to line the street which led to his house; each grenadier was ordered to have his …

1113 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.1 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal, who sent them to the mint, and ordered them to be coined immediately.

1114 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.2 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal, unless he would release their precious silver saints from imprisonment in the mint, before they were melted down, or otherwise mutilated. The French …

1115 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.4 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal ordered his own secretary to prepare a form of excommunication, exactly like that sent by the Inquisition; but to make this alteration, instead of …

1116 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.6 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal against the inquisitors. The inquisitors were all present, and heard it with astonishment, never having before met with any individual who dared …

1117 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.7 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal to receive them. The inquisitors, finding how things went, begged that they might be permitted to take their private property, which was granted; and …

1118 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.8 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal’s secretary set open all the doors of the Inquisition, and released the prisoners, who amounted in the whole to four hundred; and among these were …

1119 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 46.9 (John Foxe)

… . de Legal to send the women to his palace, and he would take proper care of them; and at the same time he published an ecclesiastical censure against all such …

1120 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 47.10 (John Foxe)

… a legal process being carried on, they were condemned to be burnt, which was executed accordingly.