| 1831 - 616 páginas
...The Old Testament, instead of sanctioning, denounces West India slavery, and dooms its abettors to death. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death," Exod. xxi. 16. But West India slaves have been stolen, and the thieves have... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1831 - 296 páginas
...of which they could make a profit. To buy or to sell a man is expressly contrary to God's command, ' He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death,' Exod. xxi. 16; and yet we know they traded in slaves." " Tyre seems to have... | |
| 1831 - 930 páginas
...die. 15 1i And he that smitcth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 1i And lie t not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously, surely be put to death. 17 H Ami he that curscth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.... | |
| Zachary Macaulay - 1831 - 592 páginas
...law of slavery as it existed amongst the Jews, we find it in the 21st Exodus, chap. 16 : — •" And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his pound, he shall surely be put to death." The moral law of Heaven is for all. (Hear, hear.) Having now... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 páginas
...to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver : and they brought Joseph into Egypt. Ge. xxxvii. 28. He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. Ex. xxi. 16. If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1832 - 96 páginas
...prevented the * Edwards's History of the West Indies, vol. ii. 34. flowing of oceans of human blood, " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Edwards says, " Of the English, the first who is known to have been concerned... | |
| George Bourne - 1833 - 228 páginas
...voluntary sales of servants by themselves, as described in 2Gen. xlvii. 19 — 23, 3Ex. xxi. i And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. — Ex. xxi. 16. * Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our... | |
| John D. Paxton - 1833 - 228 páginas
...servitude. The following laws were designed to limit it, or open a door of freedom to those in bondage. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. xxi. 16. This passage made it death to steal a person and sell him, or... | |
| Hamlet Wood - 1833 - 116 páginas
...God is, Thau shalt not steal, and we find in Exodus, chap. xxi. verse 16, the foll&wing law — "And he that stealeth a Man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death" — a Law intended no doubt not only to restrain a particular people. but for... | |
| John Rankin - 1833 - 138 páginas
...penalty which the Almighty has attached to the crime of depriving an innocent person of his liberty.—' He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.' And it ought to be remembered that this awful penalty was annnexed to the... | |
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