seat of judgment

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"I do not sit in the seat of judgment... I love people for who they are. We're all God's children!"

From Fox News • Jan. 18, 2022

All this the spectator will quietly note, sitting in his seat of judgment, ready to show his pleasure or displeasure, according to what is done.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The University looked with disdain on popular theological conferences, where unlearned men even usurped the seat of judgment, and the Council found itself embarrassed between the friends of the old order and the new.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

But the hero, though he has less to say for himself, when brought before the seat of judgment, is nearer to the fountain head of Reason.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Further he was to be publicly deposed from his office, expelled from his seat of judgment, kussû daianûtišu, and no longer be permitted to sit with the judges.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)