McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Senate

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Senate


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( ãåñïõóßá , eldership, used by classical writers for a deliberative or legislative body, and by the Sept. for the collective mass of the Jewish elders, and later for the Sanhedrim) is used once in the New Test. (Act_5:21) for some portion of the Sanhedrim, apparently the elders, who constituted its main element. SEE ELDER; SEE SANHEDRIM.