Bible Dictionary: Magistrates: should Hate Covetousness

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Exodus 18:21
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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"Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. "
... Jerome: What we fear, that we also hate. ... forbids, no preacher corrects; nay, for
covetousness' sake they ... it is not fitting that the magistrates should be idle ...
/.../luther/a treatise on good works/thou shalt honor thy father.htm

The Way of Life and the Way of Death.
... thyself." [3354] And whatsoever thou wouldest not should be done ... which is just is
reserved to the magistrates alone ... is the Lord's." "Thou shalt not hate any man ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on the two ways.htm

On the Article, and in one Holy Ghost, the Comforter, which Spake ...
... not I hate them, O Lord, that hate Thee, and ... infirmities; for we know not what we
should pray for ... you unto the synagogues, and the magistrates, and authorities ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xvi on the article.htm

A Discourse of Mercifulness
... Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou ... Evil magistrates who either
take away the key of ... Ye are married to another that we should bring forth ...
/.../15 a discourse of mercifulness.htm

The Fourth Commandment
... parents and masters; or more public, as magistrates; or inferiors ... to such an impartial
Judge, how should we observe ... may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him.' 1 ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 4 the fourth commandment.htm

Thoughts Upon Our Call and Election.
... Is not Disobedience to Magistrates a Sin ... World, theta they would all arise which
should be chosen ... in companion of their earthly Calling, but they hate and abuse ...
/.../beveridge/private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon our call and.htm

Concerning Salutations and Recreations, &C.
... 1285] obedience which is due to magistrates or superiors ... resolved to slight their
testimony, they should condemn those ... their affinity with those who hate to be ...
/.../proposition xv concerning salutations and.htm

Introductory Notice Respecting Tauler's Life and Times
... for fourteen years; and on the magistrates ordering them ... lively picture of the
inordinate covetousness, and utter ... remarkable, that the Bishop should have found ...
/.../introductory notice respecting taulers life.htm

Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses.
... them (in his time) that (indeed) shall hate the whore. ... not worship the image of the
beast, should be killed ... mouth working in some of his, as magistrates, and no ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/of antichrist and his ruin .htm

Seasonable Counsel: Or, Advice to Sufferers.
... to their deeds, to the place which magistrates have appointed ... Hate the garment, the
thing that is bad ... a thing so much unbecoming Christianity should be suffered ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/seasonable counsel or advice to.htm

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