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SENATE is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Gr. gerousia in Acts 5:21 , where ‘all the senate of the children of Israel’ is intended to explain the preceding ‘ council ’ ( synedrion ). See Sanhedrin. It is the Jewish ‘senate’ that is meant likewise in Malachi 1:10 Malachi 1:10; 2Ma 4:44 . The Roman senate is alluded to in 1Ma 8:17 ff.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Senate'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/senate.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Senate'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/senate.html. 1909.
