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
Newcomers at this business of sitting in the seat of judgment hear marvelous stories of oppression and outrage, in which the accuser is always innocent—and always alone, if possible.
From Prowling about Panama by Miller, George A.
While magnificent preparations were going on in Nyborg for the Dane-court, at which the young king would appear for the first time in the seat of judgment, the privy council assembled daily.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
In a few minutes they reappeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all these solemn preparations towards the seat of judgment.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
He must have grown out of an epithet of Baldr's, of whom Snorri says that “no one can resist his sentence”; the sacred tree would naturally be the seat of judgment.
From The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 by Faraday, L. Winifred
