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

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

Grim, four-square, inert, his very way of sitting his chair, as though it were a seat of judgment and he the interpreter of some fierce blood-law, betrayed him.

From The Silent Places by White, Stewart Edward

When the judge of the district ascertained his haunt, he ordered the forest to be surrounded, and the soldier to be seized, and brought bound to the seat of judgment.

From Mediaeval Tales by Morley, Henry

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