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Ancient Jewish council
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sanhedrin
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The Sanhedrin (Hebrew: sanhedrîn , Greek : Συνέδριον, synedrion , "sitting together," hence " assembly " or "council") was an assembly of twenty-three to seventy-one men appointed in every city in the Land of Israel . In the Hebrew Bible , Moses and the ...
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Synagogue \Syn"a*gogue\, n. [F., from L. synagoga, Gr. ? a bringing together, an assembly, a synagogue, fr. ? to bring together; sy`n with + ? to lead. See Syn- , and Agent .] A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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see sanhedrim .
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It carried the roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was never penurious.
I had no real power: I did not even manage to obtain an audience for the influential members of the Sanhedrin of Antioch, who were as fearful as we of the surprise moves of the Jewish agitators, and who would have enlightened Trajan as to the contrivings of their fellow Jews.