Mosaic law
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the Mosaic law · the law of Moses · God's word · divine voluntary right · the Mosaic Law · the text of the Pentateuch
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2 expressionsDivine Voluntary Right“Mosaic Law”1 mention
The Rights of War and Peace (English)
Yet with this difference that the Israelites alone were bound by the Mosaic Law, but the whole posterity of Abraham by the law of circumcision.
the Mosaic law1 mention
The Rights of War and Peace (English)
Neither the law of Moses, nor that given to Noah established any thing new, they were only a declaratory repetition of the law of nature, that had been obliterated by depraved custom.
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The Rights of War and Peace
The law given to the Jews through Moses, discussed regarding which parts Christ abolished and which remain binding.
In Dolabella’s letter to the Ephesians, which is to be found in Josephus, we see that the Jews requested an exemption from military expeditions, because, in mingling with strangers, they could not conveniently have observed the rites of their own laws and would have been obliged to bear arms, and to make long marches on the Sabbaths.
The substance of the eleventh argument rests not only upon our Saviour’s having abolished those parts of the Mosaic law, which formed a wall of separation between the Jews and other nations, but upon his allowing the moral parts to remain, as standing rules, approved by the law of nature, and the consent of every civilized people, and containing whatever is good and virtuous.
Yet with this difference that the Israelites alone were bound by the Mosaic Law, but the whole posterity of Abraham by the law of circumcision.
The Genius of the Common Law
Biblical law which Massachusetts Puritan settlers took, in their own interpretation, as governing authority over the Common Law.
The settlers of Massachusetts refused to admit any authority but that of their own enactments, tempered by a general deference to ‘God’s word,’ meaning thereby the text of the Mosaic law: