Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews

Now because some fix the departure of the Sceptre and Law-giver unto the removal of § 12 the Sanhedrin, it may not be amiss to declare in our passage, what that Sanhedrin was, and what the power wherewith it was entrusted, and this briefly, Because it is a subject that many Learned men have laboured in. The name [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] Sanhedrin or Sanhedrin is taken from the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew] sometimes signifies the place where the Senators meet, the same with [Greek or Hebrew]; as in Herodian, [Greek or Hebrew]. They assembled not in the accustomed Council House, but in the Capitol, the Temple of Jupiter. But most frequently it is taken for cons•ssus Judicum, an Assembly of Judges. A court made up of many Assessors; whence the Areopagum, that is, the Court of Judges, is so called in Aeschines. [Greek or Hebrew] is an Assessor in such a Court; and [Greek or Hebrew], is such an Assembly of Magistrates or Princes, as they call corona considentium, such as the Sanhedrin was. And this name of Sanhedrin though it be plainly a Greek Word, a little corrupted as is the manner of the Jews in their use of them, is frequently used in the Targum of the Hagiographa, which places are collected by Elijah in Tishbi. Some of the Jewish Masters would have it to be a word of their own language, whence they invent strange Etymologies of it, which are some of them mentioned by Buxtorf. Lex. Tal. Coll. 15 13. in Aruth they would have derived from [Greek or Hebrew]; haters of gifts; not knowing doubtless that doronoth was a Greek, and no Hebrew, word.

Now because some fix the departure of the Scepter and Law-giver unto the removal of § 12 the Sanhedrin, it may not be amiss to declare in our passage, what that Sanhedrim was, and what the power wherewith it was entrusted, and this briefly, Because it is a subject that many Learned men have laboured in. The name 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sanedrim or Sanhedrim is taken from the Greek, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 sometimes signifies the place where the Senators meet, the same with 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; as in Herodian, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. They assembled not in the accustomed Council House, but in the Capitoll, the Temple of Jupiter. But most frequently it is taken for consssus Judicum, an Assembly of Judges. A court made up of many Assessors; whence the Areopagum, that is, the Court of Judges, is so called in Aeschines. is an Assessor in such a Court; and , is such an Assembly of Magistrates or Princes, as they call corona considentium, such as the Sanhedrim was. And this name of Sanhedrim though it be plainly a Greek Word, a little corrupted as is the manner of the Jews in their use of them, is frequently used in the Targum of the Hagiographa, which places are collected by Elias in Tishbi. Some of the Jewish Masters would have it to be a word of their own language, whence they invent strange Etymologies of it, which are some of them mentioned by Buxtorf. Lex. Tal. Coll. 15 13. in Aruth they would have derived from ; haters of gifts; not knowing doubtless that doronoth was a Greek, and no Hebrew, word.