Chapter XXII · THE LESSER LAW (continued).
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CHAPTER XXII. THE LESSER LAW (continued).
IV. Various Enactments, xxii. 16–xxiii. 19.
Disconnected precepts. No trace of systematic revision. Certain capital crimes, 348–9.
Sorcery, xxii. 18.
Abuses have recoiled against religion, 349.—Sorcerers are impostors, but they existed, and do still, 350.—Moses could not leave them to enlightened opinion. Propagated apostacy, 351.—Traitors in a theocracy, 352.—When shall witchcraft die? 353.
The Stranger, xxii. 21; xxiii. 9.
“Ye were strangers,” 353.—A fruitful principle. Morality not expediency, 354.—Cruelty often ignorance: Moses educates, 355.—The widow. The borrower, 356.—Other precepts, 357.