REVENGER, or Revenger of Blood. This Name is given in Scripture to him that had the Right, according to the Jewish Polity, of taking Revenge upon him that had kill’d one of his near Relations: Ultor sanguinis. If a Man had been guilty of Manslaughter, involuntarily and without design, he fled to a City of Refuge, and he was secured from the Pursuit of the Revenger of Numb. xxxv. 25, 27.Blood. Liberabitur innocens de ultoris manu. And when the Revenger shall pursue him hither to kill him, he shall not be deliver’d up into his Hands. Cumque ultor sanguinis Josh. xx. 5. Gen. xxii. 24.eum fuerit persecutus, non tradent in manus ejus.
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