All 9 Uses of
iniquity
in
Leviathan
- The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal; The Lawes of Nature are Immutable and Eternall, For Injustice, Ingratitude, Arrogance, Pride, Iniquity, Acception of persons, and the rest, can never be made lawfull.†
Chpt 1.15
- It is true that they that have Soveraigne power, may commit Iniquity; but not Injustice, or Injury in the proper signification.†
Chpt 2.18 *
- But if an unwritten Law, in all the Provinces of a Dominion, shall be generally observed, and no iniquity appear in the use thereof; that law can be no other but a Law of Nature, equally obliging all man-kind.†
Chpt 2.26
- And the Inhabitant shall not say, I am sicke; the people that shall dwell therein shall be forgiven their Iniquity.†
Chpt 3.38
- The condition of the Saved, "The Inhabitants shall not say, I am sick:" And lastly, all this is comprehended in Forgivenesse of sin, "The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity."†
Chpt 3.38
- His Office As A Redeemer To the Office of a Redeemer, that is, of one that payeth the Ransome of Sin, (which Ransome is Death,) it appertaineth, that he was Sacrificed, and thereby bare upon his own head, and carryed away from us our iniquities, in such sort as God had required.†
Chpt 3.41
- …for himself and the Priests a young Bullock; and for the rest of the people, he was to receive from them two young Goates, of which he was to Sacrifice one; but as for the other, which was the Scape Goat, he was to lay his hands on the head thereof, and by a confession of the iniquities of the people, to lay them all on that head, and then by some opportune man, to cause the Goat to be led into the wildernesse, and there to Escape, and carry away with him the iniquities of the people.†
Chpt 3.41
- …for himself and the Priests a young Bullock; and for the rest of the people, he was to receive from them two young Goates, of which he was to Sacrifice one; but as for the other, which was the Scape Goat, he was to lay his hands on the head thereof, and by a confession of the iniquities of the people, to lay them all on that head, and then by some opportune man, to cause the Goat to be led into the wildernesse, and there to Escape, and carry away with him the iniquities of the people.†
Chpt 3.41
- "the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all:" And so he is the Scape Goat.†
Chpt 3.41
Definition:
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(iniquity) immorality; or an immoral act