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... senate and the people of Rome , ) to the wall of Antoninus , and the foot of the Atlas , the wa- ters of the Euphrates and the Atlantic ocean ? -Re- publican Rome colonized the world ; republican Greece spread the light of civilization ...
... senate and the people of Rome , ) to the wall of Antoninus , and the foot of the Atlas , the wa- ters of the Euphrates and the Atlantic ocean ? -Re- publican Rome colonized the world ; republican Greece spread the light of civilization ...
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... Senate , to take a share with Moses in the Government : and as it consisted of persons of respectability , either in point of family or merit , it would serve materially to support his power and influence among the people in general ...
... Senate , to take a share with Moses in the Government : and as it consisted of persons of respectability , either in point of family or merit , it would serve materially to support his power and influence among the people in general ...
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... Senate of Seventy , seems to be men- tioned on just such occasions after the death of Moses as most fitly calls for it . It is of small consequence whe- ther we may or may not find the name , if we find the thing . Our first inquiry ...
... Senate of Seventy , seems to be men- tioned on just such occasions after the death of Moses as most fitly calls for it . It is of small consequence whe- ther we may or may not find the name , if we find the thing . Our first inquiry ...
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... Senators of Israel - must be men who had held the office and knew its duties . Elders or Senators , I say ; for , as all scholars know , these terms are of similar import . Both of them originally refer to qualifications of age , but in ...
... Senators of Israel - must be men who had held the office and knew its duties . Elders or Senators , I say ; for , as all scholars know , these terms are of similar import . Both of them originally refer to qualifications of age , but in ...
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... Senate of Seventy , created by Divine appointment in the Hebrew Commonwealth . It seems , in some respects , to have been like an Upper House , as the Senate in our own Government ; or , in other respects , like a High Court of Appeal ...
... Senate of Seventy , created by Divine appointment in the Hebrew Commonwealth . It seems , in some respects , to have been like an Upper House , as the Senate in our own Government ; or , in other respects , like a High Court of Appeal ...
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