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Appeal
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Deuteronomy 17:8-9 implies a court of appeal in hard cases; compare Judges 4:5. The king subsequently deputized persons to inquire into and decide appeals (2 Samuel 15:3). Jehoshaphat appointed Levites, priests, and some of the fathers to constitute a court of appeal (2 Chronicles 19:8). Compare Ezra 7:25. Afterward the final appeal lay to the Sanhedrim. A Roman citizen could appeal, in criminal cases, from the magistrate to the people; and in after times to the emperor, who succeeded to the power of the people. Paul's appeal (Acts 25:11) was from a trial by a provincial magistrate to one by the emperor.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Appeal'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/a/appeal.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Appeal'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/a/appeal.html. 1949.
