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," 354.--A fruitful principle. Morality not
expediency, 355.--Cruelty often ignorance: Moses educates, 356.--The
widow. The borrower, 357.--Other precepts, 358.