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BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise

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Je ro b o am o btain e d all and eve r y r igh t ove r the te n tr ib e s that Reho b o am<br />

re t ain e d ove r the two tr ib e s. Je ro b o am c ould the refore app oin t a supre me<br />

c ou nc il in his palace with the s ame r igh t by which Jeho shaphat had don e<br />

s o at Je r us ale m (s e e 2 C hronicles 19 .8¡.). For, u ndoubte dly, s ince Je ro b o am<br />

wa s king by c o m mand of Go d, n e ithe r he nor his subje cts we re o blige d by<br />

the law of Mo s e s to sub mit to Reho b o am a s judge s ince they we re not<br />

Reho b o am’s subjects. Eve n le s s we re they o blige d to sub mit to the c ou r t at<br />

Je r us ale m which had b e e n s e t up by Reho b o am and wa s sub ordinate to<br />

hi m. Since the Heb rew st ate re maine d divide d, the re we re a s many<br />

supreme councils 60 as there were states.Those who do not pay attention to<br />

the di¡erent political arrangements of the Hebrews, at di¡erent times, but<br />

rather imagine them all to be one, 61 thus become entangled in all sorts of<br />

di⁄culties.<br />

[C hapte r 19 ]<br />

Annotation 39 (p. 249) ‘or take legal proceedings against him’: Here we<br />

must pay special attention to what we said about right in chapter 16.<br />

60 ‘Di¡erent and independent the one from the other’ [in French].<br />

61 ‘As if it was all the same’ [in French].<br />

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