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
spoken of as
2 expressionsDivine Voluntary Right“Mosaic Law”1 mention
The Rights of War and Peace (English)
The very meaning of the words divine voluntary right, shows that it springs from the divine will, by which it is distinguished from natural law, which, it has already been observed, is called divine also.
the Mosaic law1 mention
The Rights of War and Peace (English)
There is a fifth argument, maintaining that no proof can be adduced that the judicial part of the Mosaic Law, inflicting sentence of death, ever ceased to be in force, till the city of Jerusalem, and the civil polity of the Jews were utterly destroyed, without hopes of restoration.
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The law given to the Jews through Moses, discussed regarding which parts Christ abolished and which remain binding.
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.
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 very meaning of the words divine voluntary right, shows that it springs from the divine will, by which it is distinguished from natural law, which, it has already been observed, is called divine also.
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: