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Jerome: Lastly, consider that the Saviour does not here forbid to swear by God, but by the Heaven, the Earth, by Jerusalem, by a man's head. For this evil practice of swearing by the elements the Jews had always, and are thereof often accused in the prophetic writing's. For he who swears, shows either reverence or love for that by which he swears.
Thus he argues that swearing by the earth is the same as swearing by God as the earth is "god's footstool", while swearing by Jerusalem is the same as swearing by God as it is his city. [5] Matthew 5:33-5:36 is reiterated in James 5:12: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth,
The custom of oath books in courts of law was imported into the Colonial United States from English common law, by which time the procedure usually involved the swearer kissing the book, although by 1904 the American legal scholar John Henry Wigmore would remark that "custom of kissing the Book is now coming to be generally recognized as both repulsive and unsanitary; celluloid covers are ...
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U ...
Trump had chosen the Bible the 16th President Abraham Lincoln was sworn in on and one given to Trump by his mother, his transition team said. (Reporting by Heather Timmons; Editing by Rod Nickel ...
The claim that Vice President Kamala Harris placed her hand on a purse or a wallet instead of a Bible during her swearing-in is FALSE, based on our research. She used two Bibles on Inauguration Day.
The sacramentum differs from iusiurandum, which is more common in legal application, as for instance swearing an oath in court. A sacramentum establishes a direct relation between the person swearing (or the thing pledged in the swearing of the oath) and the gods; the iusiurandum is an oath of good faith within the human community that is in ...
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the ...