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not a capital offence * For it says , ' If a soul s \ vear > pronouncing with his lips to do evil , or to do good , whatsover it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath and it be hid from him , " &c . He also quotes Lovit . xxiv . 16 , where the blLisnhemor is ordered
to he put to death . But what has this to do with the business in hand ? — It should be observed that I ) r . Richie , in his work oa the Peculiar Doctrines of
Revelationhas attempted to prove that the crimes mentioned in Levit . v . 4 , and xxiv . 16 , are one and the same . And as this crime is pronounced capital in Levit . xxiv . 16 , but has atonement made for it in Levit . v . 4 , therefore , he says , that atonement was made for
capital offences . —And Dr . Magee . seems , by his manner of quoting him , ( i . 359 . ) to have adopted this strange notion—For that these crimes are not one and the same appears probable from hence ,
1 st . The original terms used to express them are different *—The Jlebrew word used in Levit . v . 4 , is tf 3 Z * n from yiXtf juravit . But the word used in JLevit . xxiv . lGy ** Dp 2 T > from 3 p 3 fixit , perforavit , item maledixit , execratus est . See BuxtorPs Lex . As the terms are so different , they probably refer to very different crimes , and not to one and the
same offence . , ; 2 dl y * It appears from the con-/ unction <>( these words in Levit . # xiv . l 6 , that they refer to bias - p . hemy , and not to " swearing profanely , lightly , and without reverence , by the name of God /' # s \) x .- Kichie asserts . He says , , t < , \{ the crime of this son of the Ihj&elitibh woman there were two distinct parts , viz . cursing and
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blasphemy . This is evident fVdf&i the dfstitict'Tavf w ^ iicli ^ % s macte for the puni ^ hrnVnt of eacti of these crimes—The \ ti \ v' for the punishment of cursing God , is expressed in these words , 4 Wfrosoever curseth his God , shall b ^ ar
njssih , v , 15 . And the raw made for the punishment of the
blasphemer is thus expressed , .. * He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord , he ^ hall surely be put to death / v l 6 , It 19 the latter of these crimes only , ' * ( says Dr . Richie ) i { that I am concerned to consider here . And in order to
shew , that it was the same sih with that of swearing ligntly and profanely , and without due ffverence , by the name of / i&dd ^* &c , &c . Richie ' s Works , p . ^ 4 ^
247 B . ut let us examine the \ v } ioj paragraph of Levit . xxiv . 1 Q—Iff , and i , ee if it be not one arid tfe same crime , and not tw ^) , tlfht % s expressed in different WaVsthere .
—Moses having informed ud h * v . 10 , of the son of an "tir ' Arti ^ k woman , whose father W&gk- 'iiii Egyptian , having hx \ loir biit wrk his brethren in the CAni ^; ^ &fi 7 in v . 11 , and the Israeliti&h
woiman ' s son blasphemed the n&hie ofihe LonJ , ( Hebrew , promnin ^ ci the name ) and curseci . '' Tha ! b '" U he proceeded so far in His rrnprtf per manner of mentioning the most sacred of all names , that he cursed it . He cursed that inliriite
personage wbornMoses so mu < h levered and adorecf ttVife . ht ! coxild not allow himsiif in tnrs ' irb ' n ' n ^ ction , to write his tiatire . ; r J 1 ie cri me bein ^> so cxtWo ^ r ririalr ' V , they put him in w"rir dV / th i ^ l He ' 'tti r ) rid of " thfe" Ijprd : mfeht { 'ty kffeWe ^ d them v . i ^? TBottWiuf / O ^^ on was thwe fi £ r ifas iyifiy'tfiimf . Was
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/42/
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