Bible Dictionary: Court: Superior, and Inferior

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Exodus 18:21-26
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
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Deuteronomy 1:15-17
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
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Deuteronomy 17:8-13
If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;
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2 Chronicles 19:5-10
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
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Whether a Man Can Use the Keys with Regard to his Superior?
... Now in the external court an inferior cannot excommunicate or absolve his superior.
Therefore, seemingly, neither can he do so in the penitential court. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether a man can use.htm

That There are Two Portions in the Soul, and How.
... A father sending his son either to court or to ... testifying, that though according
to his superior part, for ... his departure, yet according to his inferior part he ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xi that there are.htm

Translator's Introduction.
... such quietudes; who do all with the superior part of ... place at the proper time, and,
inferior in themselves ... legitimate occupations, be they even in court or camp ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/translators introduction.htm

Whether it is Lawful for Anyone to Confess to Another than his Own ...
... or against himself, but not in the court of external ... so that the latter takes the
superior's place, as ... thus delegated is higher than the inferior prelate, as ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful for 20.htm

On Pleasing all Men
... King Charles the Second, and, as it seems, by a retainer to his court. ... this respect
whether they are high or low, rich or poor, superior or inferior to you. ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 100 on pleasing all.htm

Of the Right of Bishops not to be Accused or Hurt by Detraction.
... by any means to bring any charge against them, whether superior or inferior, so
long as ... from the clerical order, and given over to the court (curiæ), to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/ii of the right of.htm

The Women of the Gospel Narrative the Study of the Early Christian ...
... much inferior to that of man, was far superior to that ... Their minds were supposed
to be of an inferior order and ... A woman may walk about her own court, but not ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/i the women of the.htm

Of the Beginning and Rise of the Romish Papacy, Till it Attained a ...
... not make a bishop superior or inferior" (Hieron. ... he would therein have been acknowledged
superior; but when ... Your court has been more accustomed to receive good ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 7 of the beginning.htm

Whether an Indulgence Can Remit any Part of the Punishment Due for ...
... Objection 2: Further, an inferior cannot absolve from an obligation imposed by his
superior. ... Wherefore whatever remission is granted in the court of the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether an indulgence can remit.htm

Chrysostom Evades Election to a Bishopric, and Writes his Work on ...
... the modern standard of ethics is far superior to that ... demonstrations, but as little
must he court them, nor ... to the proper care of souls it is inferior to the ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/chapter iv chrysostom evades election to.htm

Subtopics

Court

Court of the Gentiles

Court of the Sabbath

Court of the Sanctuary

Court: Accused Spoke in his own Defense

Court: Circuit

Court: Civil: Composition of, and Mode of Procedure

Court: Civil: Held at the Tabernacle

Court: Civil: The Gates of Cities

Court: Civil: Under a Palm Tree

Court: Contempt of