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y apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem. The hard causes they brought unto Moses. Ex. xviii. 26. In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter iii. 16.

Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh.

The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses. J. S. Mill.

daism. They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull.

ly, pl. (Ch. Hist.), those Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem.

believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts xiii. 39.

what is right and wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten commandments given by Moses. See Law, 2. -- Mosaic, or Ceremonial, law. (Script.) See Law, 3. -- Municipal, or Positive, law, a rule prescribed by the supreme power of a state, declaring some right, enforcing some duty, or prohibiting some act; -- di…

According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses

The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another. "The Divine legation of Moses." Bp. Warburton.

t under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. Num. xii. 3.

a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. Ex. xxiv. 13. I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes. Shak.

er was there aught missing unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.

Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

s disciples murmured at it." John vi. 61. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. Num. xiv. 2. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured. 1 Cor. x. 10.

sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies.

ing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. 2 Kings xviii. 4.

nthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.

history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.