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

Hence their celebrated schools at Babylon and Tiberias,—the source of all legislation, and the seat of judgment in all cases of doubtful opinion.

From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael

In a few minutes they reappeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all these solemn preparations toward the seat of judgment.

From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

But p. 2can anybody doubt that this abdication of the seat of judgment by large numbers of people is most hurtful to mankind? 

From Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Smith, Horace

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