No lawgiver of ancient or modern times has expressed more just opinions, or adopted wiser measures, than the early records of the Colony of Plymouth show to have prevailed here.
The maxim in Bracton was taken from the civil law, for we find in that system the same principle, expressed substantially in the same words, that the lawgiver cannot alter his mind to the prejudice of a vested right.
But, thanks be to God, he is not the supreme lawgiver or executor of national law, and every offence against that is an offence against the rights of the civilized world.
The Emperor of Russia is the supreme lawgiver in his own country, and, for aught I know, the executor of that law also.
It was no small exercise of his faith and patience that the great lawgiver should for so many years have such unworthy work to do as he had in Midian.
The teaching of this commandment is simply a statement of the same facts, with the addition that the Lawgiver is visible behind the law.
The mediator and lawgiver cannot rise beyond the bounds of human limitations.
What was unbelief and a sinful obtrusion of himself in God's place when the great lawgiver did it, was right and endorsed by God when the Carpenter of Nazareth did it.
The old lawgiverhas for his last achievement to punish the idolater.
It was because of his place as the medium of blessing to the nations, and as the lawgiver to his descendants.
And he who has Jesus Christ to declare God's Name to him need not envy the lawgiver on the mountain, nor even the saints in heaven.
Like the patriarch in ancient times, he is the lawgiver and the judge; He is the guardian of domestic purity.
At Athens the lawgiver Solon established houses of shame by statute, and filled them with slave girls for whom there was no possible escape.
Manu, the ancient lawgiver of India, provided that the adulterer should be burnt to death on an iron bed, and the adulteress devoured by dogs in a public place.
There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.
The pre-eminence of the tribe of Gad, to which this alludeth, was their having the lawgiver Moses buried in their borders; though the particular place was not known.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
Darmesteter observes that the Avesta and the Pentateuch are the only two religious books known in which legislation descends from the heavens to the earth in a series of conversations between the lawgiver and his god.
The moral lawgiver lays down his rules in order that they should be obeyed, and they are authoritative in so far as they have to be obeyed.
Again, if the notion of an external lawgiverbe put aside, the moral law does not generally seem to possess supreme authority in either sense of the word.
And of various savages we are told that they believe in the existence of a supreme being who is a moral lawgiver or judge.
And the King was not only regarded as the fountain of social justice, but as the earthly representative of the heavenly lawgiver and judge.
Now for our travelling from henna into parts abroad, our Lawgiver thought fit altogether to restrain it.
Accordingly, he taught his followers that they "should abandon the Lawgiver of the Jews, whom he looked upon as the Creator of the world," i.
In the execution of his undertaking, local and visible manifestations of his person and of his official prerogatives and acts were indispensable, in the relations he was to sustain as Lawgiver and Ruler, Prophet and Priest.
Prior to that event, his opposers denied his prerogatives and rights as Creator, Lawgiver and Ruler, and arrogated them for creatures.
It appears to me as inconsistent to suppose a law to exist without a lawgiver as to suppose a world to exist without a creator.
It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated.
All the writers upon alchymy triumphantly cite the story of the golden calf, in the 32d chapter of Exodus, to prove that this great lawgiver was an adept, and could make or unmake gold at his pleasure.
But the frowns of the law never yet have taught, and never will teach, men to desist from this practice, as long as it is felt that the lawgiver sympathises with it in his heart.
To the scholar, the Hebrew lawgiver is as apocryphal or fictitious a being as Hercules, Romulus, and our own king Arthur.
The first resemblance between the Persian and the Jewish lawgiver to which we would call attention, is the mythical nature of both.
The idea that Plato should become lawgiver was not adapted for the times; Solon and Lycurgus were lawgivers, but in Plato’s day such a thing was impracticable.
At a later date, therefore, he actually refused to be the lawgiver of other States, though they had made application to him for that very purpose; amongst these applicants were the inhabitants of Cyrene and the Arcadians.
But a greater man than Eardulf was also a visitor and careful student of the vanquisher and lawgiver of the Western world.
He saw great things before him, if he could become the leader and lawgiver of his race.
The Western mind was more calm, and better adapted to be thelawgiver of a new order of society composed of elements so rough and discordant as the barbarians, whose approach was now inevitably foreseen.
The sceptre had departed from Judah, and the lawgiver from between his feet.
To a Jew that phrase meant the re-establishment of the Theocracy, and a return to those great days in the history of his people when God Himself was Lawgiver and King.
Judaism had the one lawgiver who beheld God, while the people tarried below.
We have no privileged class or caste now; no fences to keep out the mob from the place of vision, while lawgiver and priest gaze upon God.
He was the natural umpire between his adult offspring, he was theirlawgiver and leader.
Moreover, their first lawgiver has taught them that they are all brethren, when once they have turned and renounced the gods of the Greeks, and worship this Master of theirs who was crucified, and engage to live according to his laws.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawgiver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
