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.
III. RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, xxi. 33-xxii. 15.
Negligence: indirect responsibility: various examples, 346-8.--Theft, 348.
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.
An enemy's cattle. A false report, 359.--Influence of multitude: the world and the Church, 360-1.--Favour not the poor, 361-2.--Other precepts. "A kid in his mother's milk," 362.
LESSER LAW, V. ITS SANCTIONS xxiii. 20-33.
A bold transition: the Angel in Whom is "My Name," 363.--Not a mere messenger, 364.--Nor the substitute of chap. xxxiii. 2, 3, 365-6.--Parallel verses, 366-7.
THE COVENANT RATIFIED. THE VISION OF GOD, xxiv.
The code is accepted, written, ratified with blood, 368.--Exclusion and admittance. The elders see God: Moses goes farther. Theophanies of other creeds, 369.--How could they see God? 370.--Moses feels not satisfaction, but desire, 371.--His progress is from vision to shadow and a Voice, 372.--We see not each other, 373.--St. Augustine, 373-4.--The vision suits the period: not post-Exilian, 374-5.--Contrast with revelation in Christ, 375.