The Old Testament in the Light of To-Day; a Study in Moral Development
The Old Testament in the Light of To-Day; a Study in Moral Development
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Digitized by Google ii8 THE OLD TESTAMENT the members of a famUy with the guilty one, or in his stead. David handed over to the Gibeonites seven , descendants of Saul to be put to death for misdeeds committed by their grandfather. And the Gibeonites "hanged them in the mountain before Jahveh.'* ^ Since the law of blood-revenge applied only in the case of freemen the killing of a slave was not a serious matter. A master who beat his slave so that he died after a day or two was not to be p...unished, according to the Mosiac Law, for the reason that "he loses his own property." In primitive as in more modem times the various forms of judicial murder have yielded but slowly to the demands of a higher moral law and a growing appreciation of the value of human life.
The absolute value, therefore, which this command- ment appears to place upon human life is found to be illusory when examined historically. All formulas of this kind mean much or little, according to the cul- ture and ethical temper of the age that uses them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
15:33.
Digitized by Google ii8 THE OLD TESTAMENT the members of a famUy with the guilty one, or in his stead. David handed over to the Gibeonites seven , descendants of Saul to be put to death for misdeeds committed by their grandfather. And the Gibeonites "hanged them in the mountain before Jahveh.'* ^ Since the law of blood-revenge applied only in the case of freemen the killing of a slave was not a serious matter. A master who beat his slave so that he died after a day or two was not to be p...unished, according to the Mosiac Law, for the reason that "he loses his own property." In primitive as in more modem times the various forms of judicial murder have yielded but slowly to the demands of a higher moral law and a growing appreciation of the value of human life.
The absolute value, therefore, which this command- ment appears to place upon human life is found to be illusory when examined historically. All formulas of this kind mean much or little, according to the cul- ture and ethical temper of the age that uses them.
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