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Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency George Barrell Cheever Affichage du livre entier - 1849 |
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abrogation application argument authority benevolence blood brother brother's keeper Cain called capital punishment cause CHAPTER Christian command committed common conscience considered crime of murder criminal death for murder decalogue dispensation divine dreadful enactment eternity evil execution existence experience fact fear feeling follows give given God's ground guilty hand highest human idea imprisonment individual infliction innocent Jewish justice kill legislation mankind means ment mind moral nature necessary necessity never Noah objection offender opinion ordinance passage passion penal penalty of death period persons possible prevent principles prison protection prove providence punishment by death question race reason reference reformation regard remarkable require retribution revenge sanction Scriptures secure sense sentence severity shed society soul spirit stand statistics statute suppose surely sword taken things thou tion translation truth universal whole wisdom
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Page 309 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 124 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 125 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 233 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Page 128 - Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Page 122 - Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven : but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 169 - ... slightest circumstance into a blaze of discovery. Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself, or, rather, it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment which it dares not acknowledge to God or man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance,...
Page 129 - Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Page 230 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 136 - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God : the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God : and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency History of capital punishment |
| Auteur | George Barrell Cheever |
| Éditeur | J. Wiley, 1849 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université de Californie |
| Numérisé | 4 déc. 2007 |
| Longueur | 332 pages |
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