Manners of the Ancient Israelites Containing An Account of Their Peculiar Custo
Manners of the Ancient Israelites Containing An Account of Their Peculiar Custo
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As to the paternal power of the Hebrews, the law gave them leave to sell their daughters;}: but the sale was a sort of marriage, as it was with the Ro- mans^ We see however by a passage in Isaiah, that fathers sold their children to their creditors ;|j and in the time of Nehemiah the poor proposed to sell their children for something to live upon, and others bewailed themselves that they had not where- with to redeem their children that were already in slavery. ** They had the power of life and... death over their children, since the wise man says, * Chas- ten thy son whilst there is hope, but persist not in it * Exod. Xxi, 20, 21. F Instit. De his qui sui vel al. 2. Instit. Quib. Mod. Jud. Part 6. J Exod. Xxi, 7. Per Cocmptioncm. || laa. I, l ** Nehem. V, 2, 5.
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to cause him to die. '* Indeed they had not so much liberty as the Romans to make use of this severe privilege without the magistrate's knowledge. ! The law of God only permitted the father and mother, after they had tried all sorts of correction at home, to declare to the elders of the city that their son was stubborn and rebellious, and upon their complaint he was condemned to death and stoned, t The same law was practised at Athens, and founded upon children's lives being derived from their parents, and upon a supposition that none could be so unnatural as to put their children to death, unless they had committed some horrible crimes.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As to the paternal power of the Hebrews, the law gave them leave to sell their daughters;}: but the sale was a sort of marriage, as it was with the Ro- mans^ We see however by a passage in Isaiah, that fathers sold their children to their creditors ;|j and in the time of Nehemiah the poor proposed to sell their children for something to live upon, and others bewailed themselves that they had not where- with to redeem their children that were already in slavery. ** They had the power of life and... death over their children, since the wise man says, * Chas- ten thy son whilst there is hope, but persist not in it * Exod. Xxi, 20, 21. F Instit. De his qui sui vel al. 2. Instit. Quib. Mod. Jud. Part 6. J Exod. Xxi, 7. Per Cocmptioncm. || laa. I, l ** Nehem. V, 2, 5.
13 146 Manners of the Israelites. [Part II.
to cause him to die. '* Indeed they had not so much liberty as the Romans to make use of this severe privilege without the magistrate's knowledge. ! The law of God only permitted the father and mother, after they had tried all sorts of correction at home, to declare to the elders of the city that their son was stubborn and rebellious, and upon their complaint he was condemned to death and stoned, t The same law was practised at Athens, and founded upon children's lives being derived from their parents, and upon a supposition that none could be so unnatural as to put their children to death, unless they had committed some horrible crimes.
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