III. Rights of Property, xxi. 33–xxii. 15.
Negligence: indirect responsibility: various examples, [346]–[8].—Theft, [348].
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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].