Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. Sermons
I. JUDGES OCCUPY A HIGH AND RESPONSIBLE POSITION. 1. They are necessary. They require to be set up "in all thy gates... throughout thy tribes." 2. They represent God (Deuteronomy 1:17). They are called "gods" (Psalm 82:1). They are clothed with a portion of God's authority (Romans 13:1). 3. They are set to uphold the sacred interests of justice. 4. They may, by wresting judgment, or by hasty and wrong decisions, inflict irremediable injury on the innocent. 5. The right discharge of their functions conduces in the highest degree to the stability, happiness, and material prosperity of society. II. JUDGES ARE REQUIRED TO EXECUTE JUST JUDGMENT. 1. They are not to be swayed by private partialities - political, social, ecclesiastical. 2. They are not to make distinctions between rich and poor, i.e. "respect persons." 3. They are not to accept bribes. 4. They are, as administrators of a justice which is impersonal, to judge in every case according to absolute right. - J.O. Thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift. Homiletic Monthly. I. SOME FACTS AND TENDENCIES IN LEGAL ADMINISTRATION. 1. The sentence pronounced against a poor man is often very heavy, and that against a rich man very light. In New Jersey a poor man was sentenced to five years of hard labour in prison for stealing a ham; in the same court a rich banker, who had ruined two banks and stolen the money of hundreds of people, received the same sentence. 2. After conviction rich convicts receive favours. In the case just cited the poor man and the rich man went to the same prison. But the poor man was put at hard labour; the rich man was made clerk in the prison library. 3. Rich men have an unfair advantage over poor men when brought to trial. The big fee that hires the eloquent pleader "buys out the law." 4. Even judges are sometimes corrupt. 5. Juries are accused of taking bribes. II. THE PERILS OF THESE FORMS OF INJUSTICE. 1. They threaten the property and lives of the poor. 2. They weaken the spirit of obedience (Numbers 22:23). 3. They develop the communistic spirit of destruction. 4. We are all unsafe when one poor wretch is unsafe only because he lacks money or friends. III. THE REMEDIES FOR EXISTING EVILS. 1. More and better teaching, in home, school, and church, on God's law of equality. 2. Wiser conversation on such matters when citizens meet together. It is dangerous and unpatriotic to treat the miscarriage of justice as a jest. 3. A sound public opinion should be cultivated by press, pulpit, and platform. 4. Our social power may be used to condemn a triumph over the law. 5. Seek to associate in all minds the idea of obedience to God with that of just judgment. () Judge Sewall, of Massachusetts, went into a hatter's shop in order to purchase a pair of shoe brushes. The master of the shop presented him with a couple. "What is your price?" said the judge. "If they will answer your purpose," replied the other, "you may have them and welcome." The judge, upon hearing this, laid them down, and bowing, was leaving the shop; upon which the hatter said to him, "Pray, sir, your honour has forgotten the principal object of your visit." "By no means," answered the judge; "if you please to set a price, I am ready to purchase; but ever since it has fallen to my lot to occupy a seat on the bench, I have studiously avoided receiving to the value of a single copper, lest at some future period of my life it might have some kind of influence in determining my judgment." ()
People Levites, MosesPlaces Beth-baal-peor, EgyptTopics Accept, Aside, Blind, Blindeth, Blinds, Bribe, Cause, Decisions, Discern, Distort, Faces, Gift, Judging, Judgment, Justice, Man's, Moved, Partial, Partiality, Persons, Pervert, Perverteth, Perverts, Position, Respect, Rewards, Righteous, Subverts, Turn, Twists, Upright, Wise, WrestOutline 1. The feast of the Passover
9. of weeks
13. of tabernacles
16. Every male must offer, as he is able, at these three feasts
18. Of judges and justice
21. Asherah poles and images are forbidden
Dictionary of Bible Themes Deuteronomy 16:19 5134 blindness, natural
5350 injustice, hated by God
5501 reward, human
5882 impartiality
7150 righteous, the
8753 favouritism Deuteronomy 16:18-19 8471 respect, for human beings Deuteronomy 16:18-20 5238 bribery
5361 justice, human
5378 law, OT
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