Bible Dictionary: Priests: Services of Judging in Cases of Controversy

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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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Deuteronomy 21:5
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
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Library

A Decade of Controversies and Schisms.
... Without judging of individual cases, it is natural and ... power of ordaining and assigning
priests is held ... made in consideration of clerical services in partisan ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter xvii a decade of.htm

The Puritan Innovations
... satisfied with his own conscience, not judging other men's ... and ministration" [134]
of the services, which proceeded ... far as laymen may be regarded as priests. ...
/.../studies in the book of common prayer/chapter ii the puritan innovations.htm

Pagan Shrines and Temples.
... Quindecemviri and other colleges of priests, then followed ... Judging from the fragments
which have come down ... bestowed on them in recognition of their services. ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter ii pagan shrines and.htm

A Case of Conscience Resolved
... ministers were to be paid for their services; and in ... Aaron of old were they, with
the priests, that were ... a possibility of understanding and of judging of what ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a case of conscience resolved.htm

Seances Historiques De Geneve --The National Church.
... If all priests and ministers of religion could ... material means whereby the highest
services are obtained ... buying and selling, marrying, judging, deliberating on ...
/.../seances historiques de genevethe national.htm

Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called. Their Spuriousness ...
... doorkeepers, acolytes, to perform those services which they ... that all who are consecrated
priests, of horses ... complain that I am unjustly judging their doctrine ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 19 of the five.htm

Causes of the Reformation
... But before judging too harshly the friendly relations ... of rewarding officials whose
services were required ... the indifference and neglect of the secular priests. ...
/.../chapter i causes of the.htm

The Deists.
... by the endless variety of opinions which priests hold about ... forbids men to use their
reason in judging of all ... the Church in virtue of his services against Deism ...
/.../abbey/the english church in the eighteenth century/chapter iii the deists.htm

Period ii. The Church from the Permanent Division of the Empire ...
... is not to every one that these services are profitable ... of a sacred thing.] In most
cases, moreover, they ... The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period ii the church from.htm

Introductory Notice Respecting Tauler's Life and Times
... he must have early made the subject of his study, judging from the ... who must be forced
to do any services for Him ... of God; and such are all those priests and nuns ...
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