Deuteronomy 1:16

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him.

Ver. 16. Hear the causes, &c.] Hear them out. In the Forum of Rome the accuser had six hours allotted him to accuse, the accused had nine hours to make his answer a

And judge righteously.] So upright was the sentence of the Areopagites in Athens, that none could ever say he was unjustly condemned; nay, both parties, as well those that are cast as they that cast, are alike contented. b

a Ulpian., in Orat. Demosth. de fal legat.

b ηππωμενοι σπεργουσιν ομοιως τοιν κεκρατηκοσι .