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1241 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book IV, p. 285.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the legal validity of the letter of divorce, the Law always pronounced against the divorce. At the same time, in popular practice, divorce must have been very …
1242 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book IV, p. 286.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the legal sense) was regarded as a privilege accorded only to Israel, not to the Gentiles. On the question: what constituted lawful grounds of divorce, the Schools …
1243 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 22.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… strict legality, and so to turn popular feeling against Him.St. Matthew. St. Luke. St. Mark. For these Levite chorister-boys, comp. The Temple and its Services p …
1244 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 73.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the legal heir made them apprehensive of their tenure. Practically, the vineyard was already theirs; by killing the heir, the only claimant to it would be put …
1245 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 135.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the legal price of a slave. Or did they mean some kind of legal fiction, such as to buy the Person of Jesus at the legal price of a slave, so as to hand it afterwards …
1246 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 218.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… no legal right, nor to ensnare Him when the purpose was evidently murderous. If he really wanted information, there could be no difficulty in procuring witnesses …
1247 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 222.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the legal right to exact it? That was all he now remembered and thought; nothing about any denial of Christ. And so, as they were still chatting together, perhaps …
1248 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 224.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… and legal procedure by the Sanhedrin, as made by Salvador (Gesch. d. Mos. Instit. [German Transl.] vol. ii. pp. 67-79) is, from the critical point of view, so unsatisfactory …
1249 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 227.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… for legal and ritual questions and discussions. And with this the notices alike in the New Testament and in Josephus accord.
1250 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 229.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… some legal and moral justification for what they had determined to do. They first sought witness or as St. Matthew rightly designates it, false witness against …
1251 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 33.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as legal ordinances. First, the payment of tithes (both of the Levitical and the so-called poor’s tithe) was declared no longer obligatory on a seller, if he were …
1252 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 49.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… important legal determinations are attributed to the prophet Haggai individually. It will readily be understood that Ezra occupied a high place in tradition …
1253 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 60.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the Legal Court of the Maccabees and finally, Chananayah and his College We have thus somewhat firmer historical ground. If in Proverbs 25:1, we read of the …
1254 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 185.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… a legal fiction, to convert them into a sort of private dwelling. Thus, supposing a number of small private houses to open into a common court, it would have been …
1255 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 186.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , a legally free place. Again, a burden meant, as the lowest standard of it, the weight of a dried fig. But if half a fig were carried at two different times—lifted …
1256 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 188.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the legal canons in the tractate Sabbath. They will show what a complicated machinery of merely external ordinances traditionalism set in motion; how utterly …
1257 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 205.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Jewish legal practices by the Christians. Simon Peter is supposed to have arrested the progress of Christianity by separating the Church from the Synagogue …
1258 Luther on Galatians, p. 107.2 (Martin Luther)
… or legal righteousness may be good enough for this life but not for the life hereafter. Otherwise the infidels would be nearer heaven than the Christians …
1259 The Pilgrim's Progress, p. 26.6 (John Bunyan)
… is Legality, a very wise man, and a man of very good name, that has skill to help men off with such burdens as thine is from their shoulders; yea, to my knowledge he …
1260 The Pilgrim's Progress, p. 27.6 (John Bunyan)
… Mr. Legality's house for help; but, behold, when he was got now hard by the hill, it seemed so high, and also that side of it that was next the wayside did hang so much …