 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1850 - 584 pages
...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...life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ; for in the image of Elohim made he man/' And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1850 - 408 pages
...are descended. On that renovation of the world, God said to the patriarch : " At the hand of man, and at the hand of every man's brother, will I require...life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ; for man is made in the image of God." (Gen. ix. 5, 6.) This general prohibition... | |
 | Charles Holland - 1851 - 308 pages
...nation. We have seen it was given to mankind in general, when it was declared to Noah, as God's law, "At the hand of every man's brother will I require...shall his blood be shed ; for in the image of God made he man." (Gen. ix. 5,6.) It is indeed a solemn thing to take away a wicked man's life from him, leaving... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...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...shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man." — (Gen. ix. 2, 5, 6.) Whatever may be thought of capital punishments, as fitted for these... | |
 | Brooks Adams - 1919 - 552 pages
...among the Hebrews at a very early period; "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: ... at the hand of every man's brother will I require...life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." l These customs and the type of thought which sustain them are very tenacious and... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1923 - 532 pages
...part of the general law of blood-revenge which was revealed by God to Noah after the great flood : " And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will...life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." The principle of blood-revenge has been carried out in the same rigorous manner... | |
 | 1925 - 682 pages
...will I require; at the hand of every beast will 1 require it and at the hand of man will I require it; at the hand of every man's brother will I require...shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He man." (Gen. 9: 5-6). This settles the question of capital punishment for all time; for this ordinance... | |
 | Robert Henry Charles - 1923 - 440 pages
...in the Old Testament. The Commandment, " Thou shalt do no murder," is based on the inherent dignity of man. " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made He man." Human nature, even in its earliest stages, is in some degree a reflection of the Divine. Where... | |
 | Carleton Eldredge Noyes - 1924 - 470 pages
...By the same token, based in the same concept, the exaction of blood-revenge is the supreme coercion. "At the hand of every man's brother, will I require...life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." The ordinance of Yahweh but echoes ineluctable desert custom. Because of the reality... | |
 | Hugo Grotius - 1925 - 1002 pages
...speaks (Genesis, ix. 5, 6) : And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require ; from every beast will I require it ; and at the hand of...shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made He man. The first part of this passage, then, in which the requiring of blood is mentioned, they understand... | |
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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 :... 
