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theocracy


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Theocracy  \The*oc"ra*cy\,  n.  [Gr.  ?;  ?  God  +  ?  to  be  strong,  to 
  rule  fr  ?  strength:  cf  F.  th['e]ocratie.  See  {Theism},  and 
  cf  {Democracy}.] 
  1.  Government  of  a  state  by  the  immediate  direction  or 
  administration  of  God;  hence  the  exercise  of  political 
  authority  by  priests  as  representing  the  Deity. 
 
  2.  The  state  thus  governed,  as  the  Hebrew  commonwealth  before 
  it  became  a  kingdom. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  theocracy 
  n  1:  a  political  unit  governed  by  a  deity  (or  by  officials 
  thought  to  be  divinely  guided) 
  2:  the  belief  in  government  by  divine  guidance 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Theocracy 
  a  word  first  used  by  Josephus  to  denote  that  the  Jews  were  under 
  the  direct  government  of  God  himself.  The  nation  was  in  all 
  things  subject  to  the  will  of  their  invisible  King.  All  the 
  people  were  the  servants  of  Jehovah,  who  ruled  over  their  public 
  and  private  affairs,  communicating  to  them  his  will  through  the 
  medium  of  the  prophets.  They  were  the  subjects  of  a  heavenly, 
  not  of  an  earthly,  king.  They  were  Jehovah's  own  subjects,  ruled 
  directly  by  him  (comp.  1  Sam.  8:6-9). 
 




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