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If at times he supports a greater severity than the Palestinian rabbis eventually allowed, that is where greater severity implies a closer relation to Roman Law. Thus he has not the horror of capital punish- ment which the Jerusalem Sanhedrin exhibited; he would condemn to death the man who commits wilful homicide, whether by his own hand or by poison; 1 1 De Spec. Leg. III. 17. 204 PHILO-JmLEUS OF ALEXANDRIA whereas the other Halakah allows it only in the former case. He who commits perjury al...so is to suffer capital punishment. 1 He adds a law which finds no place in the Palestinian tradition, making the exposure of children a capital crime. 3 Again, follow- ing the text of the Biblical law literally (see Deut. Xxi. 18), he gives power of life and death to parents over their rebellious children, whereas the Jewish law de- mands a trial before a court to make the death sen- tence legal. He approves of the lex taUonis, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, " agreeing here, indeed, with the opinion of earlier rabbis like R.
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