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The Lord portraying the GENESIS XLIX:16-18
HEART-CHARACTER of the B. C. 1689

Tribe of Dan.

16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

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John H. Patterson was of the GENESIS XXX:1-B. C. 1749 Tribe of Dan.

-From Webber.

DEUT. XXXIII:22-B. C. 1451
* 22 And of Dan he said, Dan,
is a lion's whelp: he shall leap

from Bashan.

* 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

*Deut. 33:22; Gen. 49:16-18 and Gen. 30:1-Judicial mind. "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the Tribes of Israel." "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." "Rachel envied her sister" so that she could not wrestle with the Lord and with Belhah for her son for the highest as a result Dan failed to receive a right HEART-CHARACTER to give Justice.

The dominant HEART-CHARACTER of the Personality of Dan in action.

Ps. 60:4-Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Prov. 4:23-27-23 ¶ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

24 Put away from thee a forward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

"Among the legal profession the dominant factors in the practice, and in the enforcement of the law are procedure, precedent and the technical construction of legal enactments."-J. J. Johnson.

"The land of a Teutonic community is primarily the property of the community itself. It is folkland, ager publicus, the land of the people. But here, as every where else, private property in land gradually arose; that is, the community granted out parts of the common possession to its individual members. The pictures of Caesar and Tacitus show that, in the time between them, the institution of private property in land had already made some advances. When it has once begun, it is sure to advance. It would specially advance with every conquest; each man would claim to have his personal share of the soil which he had helped to win. Thus, alongside of the folkland; the land of community, grew up the private estate, the eõel, odal or allod. This is land which is a man's very own, the gift of the community held according to the laws of the community. It is not the gift of this or that man, owing any service to this or that man. As the king's power grew, as he came to be looked on more and more as the repesentative of the community, the land of the community came step by step to be looked on as his land. In the six hundred years between the English conquest of Britain and the Norman conquest of England, the folkland, the ager publicus passed into terra regis, the land of the king.

"As the community could at all times grant away its own land, the doctrine gradually grew that the king, the head of the community, could grant it away also. In the first stage he granted it only with the assent of the community; in a later stage he came to dispense with that assent.

"Land thus booked, granted by a written document, to whomever the king would, but of course mainly to his personal followers, became bookland.

"The lord was the giver of bread to his man, and the land of the community was the noblest form of bread that he could give him. And, as things went on, he might sometimes grant him more than the land itself.

"The primitive community, great or small, from the township to the nation, had the rights of a community; it had judicial and administrative powers. From those powers it might be deemed a privilege for the royal grantee to be exempted. He might be clothed with exceptional judicial powers within his own lands; the next stage would be for those powers to spread themselves over the lands of his neighbors. The privileged landowner within a community might grow to be the lord of the community. The township might grow into the lordship; its free assembly might grow into the court of the lord; the land itself, so much of it as escaped the lord's clutches, might be declared to be held under the lord. In the fictions of lawyers things are commonly turned about. The exception is declared to be the rule, and the rule to be the exception.

"If the community contrives to save any fragments of its ancient rights from the grasp of the lord, those fragments are at last judicially declared to be held only by the lord's grant. If no grant can be found in real history, legal ingenuity will be ready to assume one." Ency. Brit. 9th Ed., Vol. 8, page 275. When the Tribes are known, we shall be better prepared to select Judges.

REV. VII:1-12-A. D. 96

* 1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the Children of Israel.

5 Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the

tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.

7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.

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*Rev. 7:1-8-Dan's name does not appear in the one hundred and forty-four thousand that are sealed in their foreheads.

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