Difference between revisions of "Lawyer"

<div> '''1: '''''Νομικός''''' ''' (Strong'S #3544 — Adjective — nomikos — nom-ik-os' ) </div> <p> an adjective, "learned in the law" (see &nbsp;Titus 3:9 , under [[Law, C]]  No. 1), is used as a noun, "a lawyer," &nbsp;Matthew 22:35; &nbsp;Luke 7:30; &nbsp;10:25; &nbsp;11:45,46,52 (ver. 53 in some mss.); 14:3; &nbsp; Titus 3:13 , where [[Zenas]] is so named. As there is no evidence that he was one skilled in Roman jurisprudence, the term may be regarded in the usual NT sense as applying to one skilled in the [[Mosaic]] Law. </p> &nbsp;Luke 5:17&nbsp; Luke 5:21&nbsp;Mark 2:6&nbsp;Matthew 9:3&nbsp; Acts 5:34

<p> <strong> [[Lawyer]] </strong> This term in [[Scripture]] does not belong so much to the legal as to the religious sphere. The ‘lawyers’ busied themselves with the study and exposition of the [[Written]] and the [[Oral]] Law of Israel, and were practically identical with the scribes (wh. see). </p>

<p> ( '''''Νομικός''''' '', Relating To'' the ''Law,'' as in &nbsp;Titus 3:9), "in its general sense, denotes one skilled in the law, as in &nbsp;Titus 3:13. When, therefore, one is called a lawyer, this is understood with reference to the laws of the land in which he lived, or to which he belonged. Hence among the [[Jews]] a lawyer was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he taught in the schools and synagogues (Matthew 28:35; &nbsp;Luke 10:25). The same person who is called 'a lawyer' in these texts is in the parallel passage (&nbsp;Mark 12:28) called 'a scribe' ''( '''''Γραμματεύς''''' '' ), whence it has been inferred that the functions of the lawyers and the scribes were identical. The individual may have been ''Both'' a lawyer* and a scribe, but it does not thence follow that all lawyers were scribes. Some suppose, however, that the 'scribes' were the public expounders of the law, while the 'lawyers' were the private expounders and teachers of it. But this is a mere conjecture, and nothing more is really known than that the 'lawyers' were expounders of the law, whether publicly or privately, or both" (Kitto). Hence the term is equivalent to "teacher of the law" ( '''''Νομοδιδάσκαλος''''' , &nbsp;Acts 5:34). "By the use of the word '''''Νομικός''''' (in &nbsp;Titus 3:9) as a simple adjective, it seems more probable that the title 'scribe' was a legal and official designation, but that the name '''''Νομικός''''' was properly a mere epithet signifying one 'learned in the law' (somewhat like the '''''Οἱ''''' '''''Ἐκ''''' '''''Νόμου''''' in &nbsp;Romans 4:14), and only used as a title in common parslance (comp. the use of it in &nbsp;Titus 3:13, 'Zenas the lawyer'). This would account for the comparative unfrequency of the word, and the fact that it is always used in connection with 'Pharisees,' never, as the word 'scribe' so often is, in connection with 'chief priests' and 'elders' " (Smith). See Lilienthal, ''De '''''Νομικοῖς''''' '' '''Juris Utriusque Apud Ifebrceos'' (Hal. 1740). Comp. (See [[Scribe]]). </p>