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BIBLICAL CRITICIBM 6
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MfJebpH tin Levitical Sin-Of-^ y&Mgs . Dr . Magee , speaking of the law of Mqses , says , u which seems to , have denounced death against every violation of it v ( see D ^ uu 3 cxv ! u 2 e >«; Ezek . xviji , 10—23 .
pal * iii * 10- James ij , 10 ) and in particular from the specific cases of ' periiiry ^ ( Levit . vi . 3 . ) and of j | ( jx > &Mie swearing , v . 4 . ) for which ^ pnem ents were appointed ; notj ^ lhst ^ ading the strict sentence of J | g law was death . ( Exod . xx . 7 . jinl Levit ; xxiv . 6 . ) " See Magec . f ^ toa ^ meht , Vol . I ., p . 358 . The , Dr . then means to assert ,
1 st . That every hreach of the law of Moses was threatened with death ; bec&ifse it says , " Cursed be he ^ ai cpnfirmeth not all the words of this law to do them . "
ff&L x * vij . fi ^; &c . J 'f But Certainly some breaches ef ^ e law Could not be esteemed * &&pifal fences , as touching the ^ S # fed , Waving running sores , the ^ k ^ rosy ^ &d . Levit . v . xii . and ] 3 Ni . Nlitn . xjx . 10- Some of these
ffiinjgfs were virtuous deeds , and th ^ express appointments of God , wind ! therefore pleasing to him ; and others nothing more than natural and unavoidable in 6 rmities
and therefore could not be esteemed worth y of death , and consequently would not be threatened ^ lifeh it ; When therefore the law sftferiis-to denounce death against v ^ y- breach of k , it must be « ticfef % * 4 * d in a qakirfitMf sense . Jtitikl ttiofigti the 4 lwbedient ate
pronounce 4 accursed , this expression does nut always vzmfy
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capital . punishmr . iit , Por it la said 3 ii cursed shall thou \ .-c ) ii Uc c ; t ; - - and cursed shall shot ; bv ; i : > i _ field ; cursed thy Lasher . - -. y ~ ; : ; store / ' Deut . xxviiio 16-Ifd ! y . The Dr . mention i r jury and pF * ofane swearing <; s . capital criraos , for which atonements were made , Levit . vi . 3 ? and the v . 4 .
He fmt mentions perjury , Levit . vi . 3 . But perjury was a capital offence onl y when the false swearer intended by it to take away the life of an inrrocent person . Theft , by the law of retaliation , perjury was punished with death ; but in other cases the penally was only an eye for an eye , and a tooth for a tooth , or property for prpperty . See Deut . xix . 16—21 . And the instance of perjury produced here , by Dr , IVIagee , for which atonement was to ba
made , respects property , and not the life of an innocent person . See Levit . vi . 3 . As to its being sraid in Exod . xx . 7 , that the Lord will not hold him guiltier that taketh his name in vain , that is , takes a false oath , it may be observed , that though the Supreme Being will certainly u ^ t esteem such a person guiltU s * , yet it is evident that the . crimfc was not always a capital oftence , and that it was not in the case
referred to above . The other instance th&i the Dr . specifies here * for which he says , atonement , was appointed , ia . prfl- * filne swtiaring , mentioned i « Levit . v . 4 . But that h certainly a * in of ignorance , ami theritor *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/41/
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