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Often appears with: paul’s companions · magistrate suppression · lawful crowd at church · faction, party, and civil strife · ephesus riot · duty to account for presence · demetrius · crime and punishment · acts 19 magistrate warning
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“But in such cases as these, it is not a set number that makes the Assembly Unlawfull, but such a number, as the present Officers are not able to suppresse, and bring to Justice.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan · insight
“Where he calleth an Assembly, whereof men can give no just account, a Sedition, and such as they could not answer for.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan · observation
He uses the Ephesian riot in Acts 19 as an example: Demetrius and workers assemble against Paul’s companions, yet the magistrate calls their crowd a sedition because it cannot be justified.
old time in Greece, are unjust, as being contrary to the peace and safety of the people, and a taking of the Sword out of the hand of the Soveraign. Concourse of people, is an Irregular Systeme, the lawfulnesse, or unlawfulnesse, whereof dependeth on the occasion, and on the number of them that are assembled. If the occasion be lawfull, and manifest, the Concourse is lawfull; as the usuall meeting of men at Church, …