...thus requires impossibilities ! When the Jews were under a Theocracy, and there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes : and when Moses was immediately appointed of God to govern them, not only in their morals was divorcement tolerated,...

...always corrupt, when the people were corrupt. There was a great degeneracy in the time of the judges, when every man did what was right in his own eyes; and that "day of declension proved a day of temptation to the priests, who were earned away by the stream...

...examples may here suffice: " When the Jews were under a theocracy, and there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes: And when Moses was immediately appointed of God to govern them, not only in their morals was divorcement tolerated,...

...always corrupt, when the people were corrupt. There was a great degeneracy in the time of the judges, when every man did what was right in his own eyes; and that day of declension proved a day of temptation to the priests, who were carried away by the stream...

...always corrupt, when the people were corrupt. There was a great degeneracy in the time of the judges, when every man did what was right in his own eyes; and that day of declension proved a day of temptation to the priests, who were carried away by the stream...

...theirs, not by the light of full Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every u man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when...every other consideration, — "Thou shalt love " thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy." We need only claim for the Middle Ages the same favorable hearing...

...own confession, on a lower moral level than other portions of the Sacred record, although it portrays a time when " every man did what was right in his " own eyes," and when " the children of Israel did " that which was evil in the sight of the Lord," yet there is in this very circumstance...

...more understanding spirit in Jonathanthe nation at large. What was tolerated in the time of Jephthah, when every man did what was right in his own eyes, and when the obligation of such vows overrode all other considerations, — was no longer tolerated. The people...

...development of Israelite independence gradually passed into other forms, — to what disorders it gave rise when every man did what was right in his own eyes, and there was no king in Israel; how, as in the case of the Christian Church of later times, all the complicated...

...its provisions, to the transition state of the nation during their journey through the wilderness, when every man ' did what was right in his own eyes;' and that the staff of the priestly family must have been insufficient at first to perform all the sacrifices...