By Right of Sword a Defense of Capital Punishment Based On a Searching Examina
By Right of Sword a Defense of Capital Punishment Based On a Searching Examina
Leigh H Leigh Hadley Irvine
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GOD GAVE THE PRIME LAW. The reader should remember several vital and funda- mental facts, says the great commentator: First, the prime law was not that of Moses, but of God. Next, it should be borne in mind that not one law was abro- gated by the Saviour. Then one should remember that these old laws contain the doctrine of love, the law, of courtesy, of kindness, of benevolence, and of pro- tection to strangers and the poor, also, above all, love of neighbor. In other codes and concerning other... subjects, also, A DEFENSE OF CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT 109 the law of Moses, contrary to some interpretations, was mild and full of gentleness and equity, as the great Graves shows in his lectures on the Pentateuch. In truth these laws foreshadow the Sermon on the Mount. Next, the code can not be regarded otherwise than as a collection of the tenets of a superhuman wisdom. The direct argument in favor of capital-punishment, taken from Scripture, begins with the prime com- mandment to Noah. All commentators on the mean- ing of Holy Writ agree to this interpretation.
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