Contempt Of Court

Contempt of court, in the older topical-index sense, names the biblical concern with disrespect, defiance, or violence shown toward a duly seated judge or tribunal — whether the priestly judges of Israel, the elders gathered at a city gate, or a magistrate's bench in a Roman provincial setting. Scripture treats such defiance as a matter taken seriously by the judicial authority, though it does not articulate the precise modern legal category by that name.

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