...blasphemy, as being against God's representatives, and accordingly very severely prohibited, Exod. xxii. 28. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. And this vice also is censured in the Gnostics by St. Jude in his Epistle, verse 8. where they are...

...blasphemy, as being against God's representatives, and accordingly very severely prohibited, Exod. xxii. 28. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. And this vice also is censured in the Gnostics by St. Jude in his Epistle, verse 8. where they are...

...gods ;" which words are spoken of princes and rulers; as it is also said in the law, (Exod. xxii. 28.) "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people ;" where the latter clause is but explanatory of the former. The reason of this is plain ; rulers are...

...sleep ? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear ; for 1 am gracious. 28 IT Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 IT Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors : the first-born...

...Moses' seat." The high priest sat to judge St. Paul, who applied to him that text, Exod. xxii. 28. " Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people, or speak evil of him," as the Apostle renders it, Acts xxiii. 5. So that here the government was still...

...his courts preserve his Word, And we too wait his grace. PSALM LXXXII. Against heathen rulers. For thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 1 AMONG th' assemblies of the great, A greater Ruler takes his seat ; The God of heaven, as Judge,...

...jealous care, let us be equally careful not to abuse it. There is a respect, in my apprehension, due:to civil governors on account of their office, which...Testament subjoins to the duty of fearing God, that of honouring the king; and frequently and emphatically inculcates submission to civil rulers, not so much...

...the apostle Paul was betrayed into an intemperate expression of anger against the Jewish high-priest, from an ignorance of the station he occupied, he was...Testament subjoins to the duty of fearing God that of honouring the king; and frequently and emphatically inculcates submission to civil rulers, not so much...

...informed of this, than he apologized, and quoted a precept of the Mosaic law, which says, Thou shaft not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people....Testament subjoins to the duty of fearing God, that of honouring the king ; and frequently and emphatically inculcates submission to civil rulers, not so...

...the apostle Paul was betrayed into an intemperate expression of anger against the Jewish high-priest, from an ignorance of the station he occupied, he was...says, Thou shalt not revile the gods nor curse the rukr of thy people. In agreement with which, the New Testament subjoins to the duty of fearing God...