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The testimony of two witnesses is equal in its force to the testimony of three or more witnesses. Thus if two witnesses say an event occurred, and one hundred witnesses say it did not occur, the groups of witnesses are considered to contradict one another, but no more weight is given to the larger group; other evidence is needed to reach a ...
It has also been proposed that the two witnesses are the witnessing church, because Jesus sent out his disciples "two by two". [23] The two witnesses are the true prophetic witness in Revelation (the church), and they serve as the counterpart to the false prophetic witness, the beast from the land, who has two horns like a lamb (Revelation 13: ...
Appealing to the Old Testament traditions that required two or three witnesses to establish a testimony, the two witnesses of Revelation represent the whole church in its specific role as witness. [22] Three and a half years and its variants of 42 months and 1,260 days are employed throughout Revelation (Rev. 11:2-11; 12:4-6, 11; 13:5). [23]
Generally speaking, two or more witnesses constitute complete testimony, and there is no difference between the testimony of two and the testimony of a large number of people. However, this principle of following the majority applies specifically to assessing monetary issues, but here it is a case of uncertainty concerning a life-threatening ...
Francis J. Lamb, Miracle and Science: Bible Miracles Examined by the Methods, Rules and Tests of the Science of Jurisprudence as Administered Today in Courts of Justice, (Oberlin: Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1909). Irwin H. Linton, A Lawyer Examines the Bible, reprint edition, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977). ISBN 0-8010-5565-2
Ben Witherington III described Jesus and the Eyewitnesses as a paradigm shift in Gospels study. [2] In a special issue of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus devoted to the book, Samuel Byrskog described it as "a remarkable achievement which rightly places the role of eyewitnesses in early Christianity on the international scholarly agenda and points to its historical and ...
What Jesus reportedly said about bread and wine at the Last Supper passes the criterion of multiple attestation. [8]: 175 For example, the "Kingdom of God" motif appears in "Mark, Q, special Matthean tradition, special Lucan tradition, and John, with echoes in Paul, despite the fact that 'Kingdom of God' is not Paul's preferred way of speaking."
The Hebrew Bible contains a number of prohibitions against false witness, lying, spreading false reports, etc. [9] For a person who had a charge brought against them and were brought before a religious prosecution, the charge was considered as established only on the evidence of two or three sworn witnesses. [10]