Importance of words. Various transgressions, [325].—Slander against nations, against the race. Love, [326][7].

The Tenth Commandment, xx. 17.

The list of properties, [328].—The heart. The law searches, [329].

[THE LESSER LAW, xx. 18–xxiii. 33.]

A remarkable code. The circumstances, [331].—Moses fears: yet bids them fear not, [332][3].—Presumption v. awe. He receives an expanded decalogue, an abridged code, [334].—Laws should educate a people; should not outrun their capabilities, [335][6].—Five subdivisions, [337].

I. The Law of Worship, xx. 22–26.

Images again forbidden, [337].—Splendour and simplicity. An objection, [338].—Modesty, [339].

[CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (continued).]

II. Rights of the Person, xxi. 1–32.

The Hebrew slave. The seventh year. Year of jubilee. His family, [340].—The ear pierced. St. Paul’s “marks of the Lord.” Assaults, [341].—The Gentile slave, [342]. The female slave, [342][3].—Murder and blood-fiends, [343].—Parents. Kidnappers, [344].—Eye for eye. Mitigations of lex talionis, [344][5].—Vicious cattle, [346].