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Show 19 ~ , T!5e·manner·ofelelti11g ]udgeJ. L lB. V.. /iftewife wtH required by the Ro»JIIns i,n thei~ JudgtJ, PS appeareth bJ that co11Jmen adage,sexage1:1arnt1 dt ponte. .4~ That theyfhould be 11P Ettnuchs~becaufefu-ch com_1?Jonly lvere cruel. 5. That they fbowld be Fathers ofc:~tldren, which t.heJ t.ho.ught wtU. tt fpecialmo~ive to vtercy. f..7httl· ther (bo-uld be skjlfHl in 114agic~, t¥Jtthot~t the.lz_nowledge ofwh.lchJ t-hey were not able to }udge of Mdgtczans. That there might be a fi1ffictent fupply of able men. to fucceed in the roam of the Judges dytng, there fate cMo{el K.ot{en, (c)' three benches of ot~ers beneath, who~ the~. ibitl. lied( d)Talmidi chacamrm., scholar! oft·he wife me~to. ~,~;~711 ~~t of thefe they mad: their EleCtion, and two of vifciP:Nli {lfpi-c: thefe.always ac.com-pa'nted the .condemned perfon to llltHm. the place of execution. . · Their In11ugur.ation of]udges W/IS two fold· At firfi, b , impojition of hands u P?n the head of th~ pa.rt y ?a~ter tJe example ofi'Ylafes lay tog hands on )ojhu.1. •. thts 111~~ t -Petr.Galatin. pojition of hand1 was POt held lawful ' (e) except lt lib.4.capLs. w.ere in the prtfence of five or three Ju~ges at the f. T-'1~~n . leafr .. Afterwards=- it was byfa;ing a .certazn verJ!.(f) 1\0~ l..o) thou art alfociated') a"d poD!er i; gtve~ t~ee to JUd~e· 1n~,wu t'\, ,.c lt" uence is that fay1ng ot Galattnus out of. 7 o1,pena tes. r-~ ffi h 1-,,7 the Talmud, InflitNJ.io J~tdicum, aut m~tnu . t a·t:J au£, ,'?l~N , nomine tantN11J.. • d ,rr; • ~.J\ 1 . Obferve here, that StJmuc, whtch l!en er aJ;octA-- M~O:J'R: d doth not alwayes fignifie a. man ltcenfcd to the Matmon ,,. te , ·k a: b l · ,,.,ofition .~ ~llb.edrirr.c,~· difcharge of fame J'Ubh . 01-nCe Y t )f 1111r ')"' . 0J ~ hands; tor here it IS apphed to thofe who were not addmitted by.i:mpofition of hands. Now the reafon why th~fe words Semica:J and Semicuth, are generally by all Expofitors' 1~w.J and chri.fti~ns, tran~ated t~e z.m po..J..6'I1 . ... oifh ..... Js is becaufe thts folmn ktnd of h .. lfJH CHI ) ) • ld • enfin termed 8emica, or Semictllh~ wa~ ~no t~rne ~li:d.o~r towards two .forts of men tn the~r adm1~~l LIB. V. ceremonieJ cOIJtnJon 'in capital) '&c, on, towards R.zbbie1 and towards Judges ;which kind of permiflion, becaufe it was not performtd towards either ,of them without this ceremony of iutpojtng hands : hence thefe two words h~ve been tranilated the impojition of hands whereas properly they !ignifie nothing elfe, but anaj]ociation, an approximatio·n, or conjoyni:ng ~f one into the fame corporation or com ... pany, of which he that doth a/foci ate an·d give admiffion is a member. CHAP .. VI. Ceremonie~ commo1t in all capitalJ~tdg,Jun_ts •. I N.their greater pu~ifhment~~ which deprived o.f hfe, fome ceremDntes were common to them all. Firft, The Judges were to uje deliher-ation in all C41t: 1~) . . fes, but efpecially in matters capital. -There were four caufes, faith (a) Jonatha~ in his TargNm, that came a rart.um 1o· before lldo[es (he mentioneth non~ in particular, but 71111 h.Num.9.8.~ .. what they were, we fuaii prefently learn out of other · records.) Two of thefe were not weight); in thefe he haftened.: Tw~ more material, concerning Jife and b -''7N::l, de!ath ; tn thefe he delayed. ~ (h) Cteterum tam de hh'J'a!iN~' q~tam de iUis dice-bat J Non a11divi; Of both the lighter 10~ and weightier caufes, Mofcs [aid I hafJe Hot hea~d, to ~,o. wit, from the, Lord: to iliew, that~ deliberation and M•!:OUJ confultation as it were ·with God, ought to be in aJl]on~~th. j11dgements, before fentence be pronounced. Thefe four caufes are named in (c) other Records: The two c :;ar';m. Hit· lighteft arej l. The matter of unclea11neJJ deharring the ro 011 Hm·9 · 8~ people fr~mlhe Pajfover, Num. 9·9· Secondly,thecafo · ofZe:ophehads -daughters, Num.36.1o._rhe 2 weighter C c 2 are |
