Law of Moses

1. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations · 8 passages

   book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 5 6 passages anchored here

   Directly invoked as the source of legal commands discussed in two paragraphs.

   "Go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded.

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority 1 citation · 20 passages

   book 2 20 passages anchored here

   The Mosaic law is the passage's dominant cited authority, quoted and interpreted across nearly the whole of the section.

   Plain, then, are all the other virtues too, recorded in Moses, that furnished to the Greeks the beginning of the whole ethical sphere — I mean courage and temperance and prudence and justice, and steadfastness and endurance, and gravity and self-control, and the reverence that is upon these.

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   ch. 11 3 passages anchored here

   Cited as a parallel scriptural authority sharing the same principle of tenderness toward life as Roman law.

   For the Jewish law suppose this, when it treats of a thief in the act of piercing, or, as some translate it, with a stabbing instrument.

4. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 1 neutral 1 citation

   chapter 11

   The law of Moses is explicitly named before being contrasted with Christ's teaching.

   For the law of Moses, given of old to the Israelites, says:

5. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 7

   The laws of Moses are explicitly named as a source drawn upon in Alfred's legal code.

   The code of Alfred would not fill twelve [61] pages of the statute book of Massachusetts, and was little or nothing else than a compilation of the laws of Moses, and the Saxon customs, evidently collected from considerations of convenience, rather than enacted on the principle of authority.

6. Adversus Judaeos Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   adversus judaeos 2 passages anchored here

   The legal and ritual provisions cited derive from the law of Moses.

   But the other, offered for the offences and given as food only to the priests of the temple, marked the tokens of the second representation, by which, all offences expiated, the priests of the spiritual temple — that is, of the church — should enjoy, as it were by a kind of feast, of the Lord's grace, while the rest fasted from salvation.

7. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   adversus praxean 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly invoked twice as legal grounds for the argument.

   He therefore both made plain the conjunction of the two persons, lest the Father should be desired separately, as though visible, in sight, and that the Son might be held the representative of the Father.

8. De Anima Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de anima

   Directly cited as legal authority for the personhood of the formed fetus.

   For the law of Moses too then judges the abortion guilty of retribution, when it is already the case of a man, when there is already reckoned to it a status of life and death, when it is already enrolled even under fate, even though, while still living in the mother, it shares most of its lot with the mother.

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