malefactor

• “Dead in law, as a condemned malefactor is called a dead man because he is under a sentence of death; so sinners by the guilt of sin are under the sentence of the law and condemned already, John iii.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “Sinners are dead in state, being destitute of the principles, and powers of spiritual life; and cut off from God, the fountain of life: and they are dead in law, as a condemned malefactor is said to be a dead man.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “That she shall be exposed to shame: Thy lewdness and thy whoredoms shall be discovered (v. 29), as, when a malefactor is punished, all his crimes are ripped up, and repeated to his disgrace; what was secret then comes to light, and what was done long since is then called to mind.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “Now the business of a judge with a malefactor is to convict him of his crimes, and then to pass sentence upon him for them.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “When people clamor for justice in Israel but ignore massacres in Syria, Libya, starvation in North Korea, on and on -- are they interested in criticizing only if the malefactor is a Jew?”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi David Wolpe: Is It Anti-Semitism?

• “He saw himself as the shepherd dog does; until he had rounded him up the malefactor was his private responsibility, to be protected as well as cornered.”

  The Tiger in the Smoke

• “In this instance the malefactor was a woman, not a man, and her name was Grizel Cochrane, member of (or at least sprung from) a noble family, which later produced one of the most famous seamen in the annals of naval history.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “At the trial it was discovered that the malefactor was a baptized Jew, by the name of Wadetsky Minsk.”

  Rabbi and Priest A Story

• “This simple monarch knew that if a malefactor were the terror of the mountain hamlets, his subjects would expect him personally to take arms and pursue the ruffian; and if he refused to do so, would very probably experiment with another king.”

  The Crimes of England

• “Here is all the town bizzing with a fine piece of work,' she writes, 'and what would make the thing more noted (if it were only known) the malefactor is a PROTEGEE of his lordship my papa.”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

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