 | Albert Barnes - 1799 - 416 pages
...what is promised in an oath. ' Thine oaths.' An oath is a solemn affirmation, or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, and imprecating his vengeance, and renouncing his favour, if what is affirmed be false. A false oath... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1844 - 494 pages
...were before— VEMR 16. What ii here mtant tyiwearinof Taking an oath, or making a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. An oath thus taken should be sacredly kept. Leviticus xix. 12 ; Matt. v. 33. — VERSE 18. What altar... | |
 | 1843 - 400 pages
...what is promised in an oath. *¿ Thine oaths. An oath is a solemn affirmation or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, and imprecating his vengeance, and renouncing his favour, if what is affirmed is false. A false oath... | |
 | Enoch Lewis - 1846 - 64 pages
...we promise be not performed.''! Webster's definition is, " A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. * Concordance, word Oath. f Moral and Political Philosophy, ch. 16. The appeal to God in an oath, implies... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1851 - 870 pages
...what is promised in an oath. Ц Thiiif oaths. An oath is a solemn affirmation, or declaration, made him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth : for there and imprecating his vengeance, and n-- nouncmg his favour, if what is affirmed is false. A false oath... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1862 - 614 pages
...oath can be advised of the truth of the allegation. An oath is defmed to be a solemn affirmation, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, <fcc. And a false oath is called perjury. Tested by this rule, could perjury be assigned upon the affirmation... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...they are called wadys. OA8J CYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE OATH, a solemn affirmation or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. The appeal to God in an oath, implies that the person imprecates his vengeance and renounces his favor... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1853 - 474 pages
...what is promised in an oath. ¥ Thitit oaths. An oath is a solemn affirmation; or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, and imprecating his vengeance, and renouncing his favor, if what is affirmed is false. A false oath... | |
 | Joseph Tate Cooper - 1853 - 264 pages
...elaborate work. "An oath," says this learned lexicographer, " is a solemn affirmation, or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed." Here is the definition. In the next place, he says, " The appeal to God in an oath, implies that the... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1856 - 432 pages
...religiously, what is promised in an oath. ^ Thin* oaths. An oath is a solemn affirmation, or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, and imprecating his vengeance, and renouncing his favor, if what is affirmed is false. A. false oath... | |
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An oath is a solemn affirmation, or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, and imprecating his vengeance, and renouncing his favor, if what is affirmed is false. 
