Original sentence: (Why is it enough.) The most important critical discussion is that of Kuenen in the Verslagen, etc.Accroding to some historians , the priests, Levites, and hereditary heads of houses there spoken of as sitting at Jerusalem as a court of appeal from the local judicatories do not correspond with anything mentioned in the old history, and they regard it as being merely the practice of the chronicler to refer the institutions of his own time to an origin in ancient Israel.The Jewish assembly of 71 religious scholars, whose origins were traditionally ascribed to the 70 elders who accompanied Moses, came to be called a Sanhedrin, a linguistic adaptation of the term "Synhedrion", by the time of the  Mishnah.The Sanhedrin was variously described as it is called "the sanhedrin," "the great sanhedrin," "the sanhedrin of seventy-one [members]" and "the great court of justice" (beth din haggadol).The high priest as the head of the state was doubtless  also the head of the senate, which, according to Eastern usage, exercised both judicial and administrative or political functions (see , )
Edited sentence: 424 seq.Clearly the priests, Levites, and hereditary heads of houses there spoken of as sitting at Jerusalem as a court of appeal from the local judicatories does not correspond with anything mentioned in the old history, and it is the practice of the chronicler to refer the institutions of his own time to an origin in ancient Israel.In the Mishnah it is called "the sanhedrin," "the great sanhedrin," "the sanhedrin of seventy-one [members]" and "the great court of justice" (beth din haggadol).The Jewish body which in its origin was the municipal council of Jerusalem, but acquired extended functions and no small authority and influence over the Jews at large (see 13.The high priest as the head of the state was doubtless also the head of the senate, which, according to Eastern usage, exercised both judicial and administrative or political functions (see , ).The most important critical discussion is that of Kuenen in the Verslagen, etc