Bible Dictionary: Kings: should Investigate all Matters

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
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The Image of the Beast.
... worship the image of the wild beast, should be killed. ... Ten kings of the Romans shall
arise together, in different ... a council in AD503 to investigate the charges ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the image of the beast.htm

In the Creation of the World, and all Things in It, the True God ...
... what it is the Lord's pleasure that we should know concerning ... all, it is not worthwhile
anxiously to investigate a point ... in the servant of Elisha (2 Kings 6:17 ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 14 in the creation.htm

Treatise on the Priesthood. Book iii.
... have reconciled, not rulers and kings, but God ... is not so qualified, even if all should
conspire in ... this path of life to investigate all matters thoroughly well ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/treatise on the priesthood book 3.htm

Of the Origin, Life, Reign, Name and Death of Jupiter, and of ...
... it only remains that we should also investigate his death ... at all resemble his parents,
but should have a ... had given birth to most powerful kings were attributed ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xi of the origin life.htm

On Rational Natures.
... sins, I cast thee forth to the earth before kings; I gave ... requiting examination in
this place; lest perhaps we should appear to investigate subjects of ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/chapter v on rational natures.htm

Guelf and Ghibelline. (ii)
... This is not the place to investigate the interesting question of ... Empire, provided
that the Church herself should recognise the ... Sidenote: The rival Kings of the ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter xv guelf and ghibelline.htm

Translated from the Greek.
... 2893] quoted from the third book of Kings, which Paul has ... and all who desire that
no meaning should be exhibited ... save the literal one, do not investigate at all ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/translated from the greek.htm

Of the Beginning and Rise of the Romish Papacy, Till it Attained a ...
... it will not be out of place to investigate the means ... be judged either by the emperor,
or by kings, or by ... Nay, though he should be the most abandoned of all, he ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 7 of the beginning.htm

General Principles of Interpretation. 1 Since the Bible Addresses ...
... to the Hebrews"without pausing to investigate particular questions ... The same reasonable
method should be pursued with ... the books of Samuel and Kings more fully ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxiv general principles of.htm

The Nuns of the Primitive Church
... No one," he says, "of the kings, no one ... of Autun should examine the case, but that
he should call to ... of his fellow-bishops, and so fully investigate the matter ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/vi the nuns of the.htm