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Old Testament Civics: Reformed Civics - Toby Sumpter
"In all the old statues and paintings, Lady Justice is blind. Often she is blindfolded, sometimes blind in the eyes. This is because justice does not fear the face of man. “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor” (Lev. 19:15). “And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it” (Dt. 1:16-17
This was at least the pretext of the Herodians asking Jesus about paying taxes to Caesar: “Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men” (Mt. 22:16ff).
Justice — and therefore civic order — is to be the same for everyone. Lady Justice is blind and holds a set of scales in one hand and a sword in the other. This symbolizes the biblical foundations of civil order. Justice is to establish equal weights and measures and execute punishments equitably for all people regardless of class, sex, race, age, etc. In what follows we consider the basic biblical principles of civil order and justice, as handed down to Israel in the Torah and further established in the rest of the Christian Scriptures..." Transcript
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