lawgiver in English

noun
1
a person who draws up and enacts laws.
It is no more valid to say ‘because law suggests a lawgiver, a divine lawgiver must exist’.

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1. The spirit of the Lawgiver lives.

2. For there the allotment of a lawgiver is reserved.

3. (James 4:12) Indeed, Jehovah is the only true Lawgiver.

4. When we think of laws, we acknowledge that they came from a lawgiver.

5. 366) Bible translators have rendered the word “lawgiver,” “ruler,” and “commander.”

6. Athelstan was a successful warrior, lawgiver, and diplomat, overall a great king

7. There must be a Lawgiver that governs the movement of this otherwise inert matter.

8. 5 Indeed, the great lawgiver Solon once contemplated making marriage compulsory, and in Athens under Pericles bachelors were excluded from certain important public positions.

9. Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily Conciliated

10. Jehovah God is designated as the Source of law, the Supreme Lawgiver (Isa 33:22), the Sovereign, delegating authority (Ps 73:28; Jer 50:25; Lu 2:29; Ac 4:24; Re 6:10), without whose permission or allowance no authority can be exercised.

11. (Acts 7:23-29) Decades later, however, because of Moses’ faith and unselfish desire to help his brothers, Jehovah empowered him to perform many miracles and to serve the Israelites for 40 years as His prophet, judge, lawgiver, and mediator.