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Definition of Mosaic law
1. Noun. The laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosaic Law
Literary usage of Mosaic law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Besides these there were the Pharisaic Jewish Christians, who insisted upon the
observance of the mosaic law and of circumcision by all, and rejected Paul ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"God is the author of the mosaic law; he is an enthusiastic admirer of the Temple
of Jerusalem, the Jewish land and people, and its holy laws and learned ..."
3. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1892)
"THE mosaic law IN THE LIGHT OF ETHICS. THE legislator of the Pentateuch is
concerned only with practical morality. Abstract psychological and ethical ..."
4. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Application to reward promised in the mosaic law. ... For the reasons already
assigned, I shall first inquire what evidence is furnished by the mosaic law. ..."
5. An Introduction to the History of the Development of Law by Martin Ferdinand Morris (1909)
"CHAPTER II THE mosaic law First of all the municipal codes of the world in their
importance to us, and relatively also the first in the embodiment of the ..."
6. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The distinction between the absolute and the relative applies to the entire Mosaic
law, to its distinctively ethical as well as its confessedly ceremonial ..."
7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Besides these there were the Pharisaic Jewish Christians, who insisted upon the
observance of the mosaic law and of circumcision by all, and rejected Paul ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"God is the author of the mosaic law; he is an enthusiastic admirer of the Temple
of Jerusalem, the Jewish land and people, and its holy laws and learned ..."
9. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1892)
"THE mosaic law IN THE LIGHT OF ETHICS. THE legislator of the Pentateuch is
concerned only with practical morality. Abstract psychological and ethical ..."
10. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Application to reward promised in the mosaic law. ... For the reasons already
assigned, I shall first inquire what evidence is furnished by the mosaic law. ..."
11. An Introduction to the History of the Development of Law by Martin Ferdinand Morris (1909)
"CHAPTER II THE mosaic law First of all the municipal codes of the world in their
importance to us, and relatively also the first in the embodiment of the ..."
12. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The distinction between the absolute and the relative applies to the entire Mosaic
law, to its distinctively ethical as well as its confessedly ceremonial ..."