It is also expressly urged (Bava Kama, fol. 113, col. 1 ), to resort to false and adroit pretexts to secure the acquittal of a guilty Jew. Compare this from the "people of God" with the following from a Pagan Poet:
If ever called
To give thy witness in a dubious case,
Though Phalaris himself should bid thee lie
On pain of torture in his flaming bull,
Disdain to barter innocence for life,
To which life owes its luster and its worth.(vi)
* Talmud, Bava Kame, fol. 38, col. 1.
** Bava Metzia, fol. 24, col. 1.
*** Sanhédrin, fol. 78, col. 2.
**** Bava Kama, fol. 38, col. 1.
v Bava Kama, fol. 118, col. 2.
vi Juvenal, Sat. 8,1,80.
Doctor Edersheim quotes the following from the Talmud:
The best of the Gentiles kill; the best among serpents, crush its head.