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Title

The law in the Scriptures : with explanations of the law terms and legal references in both the Old and the New Testaments / by Edw. J. White.

Author

White, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1869-1935

Publication

St. Louis, Mo. : Thomas Law Book Co., 1935.

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xxiv, 422 p. ; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Genesis to Revelation

Subject

• Bible and law
• Jewish law
• Law > Terminology

Genre/Form

Terminology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Genesis -- 1. Creation of man -- 2. The Sabbath -- 3. Woman -- 4. The first murder -- 5. Sacrifices to the Lord -- 6. God's injunction to Noah against homicide -- 7. The Hebrew law of tithes -- 8. Abram's promised heir -- 9. Hagar's legal status -- 10. God's covenant with Abram -- 11. Circumcision -- 12. Reason for Sodom's destruction -- 13. Lot's incest with his daughters -- 14. Abraham's temptations -- 15. Abraham acquires sepulcher for Sarah -- 16. Abraham exacts oath from his servant -- 17. Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah -- 18. Abraham's gift to Isaac -- 19. Esau sells his birthright -- 20. Jacob's fraud and Isaac's blessing -- 21. Jacob's oath to give tithes -- 22. Jacob's apprenticeship to Laban -- 23. Jacob's covenant with Laban -- 24. Defilement of Jacob's daughter, Dinah -- 25. Sale of Joseph by his brothers -- 26. Joseph's imprisonment -- 27. Taxation under Pharaoh -- 28. Jacob's adoption of Manasseh and Ephraim -- II. Exodus --^
• 1. Pharaoh's proclamation for death of Hebrew sons -- 2. Adoption of Moses by Pharaoh's daughter -- 3. Moses slays and Egyptian -- 4. Bondage of Hebrews under Egyptians -- 5. God renews His covenant with Moses -- 6. The feast of the Passover -- 7. Pharaoh's dismissal of the Israelites -- 8. Spoliation of the Egyptians -- 9. Exodus of the Israelites -- 10. Destruction of Pharaoh's soldiers -- 11. The ordinance of Marah -- 12. Injunction against labor on the Sabbath -- 13. Selection and qualification of judges -- 14. God's covenant with Moses at Sinai -- 15. The Ten Commandments -- 16. The law concerning altars -- 17. Relation of master and servant -- 18. Rights of female slaves -- 19. Sanctuary in cases of manslaughter -- 20. Patricide and matricide, punishable by death -- 21. Kidnapping punished by death -- 22. Compensation for assault -- 23. Penalties for injuring servants -- 24. Punishment for causing miscarriage -- 25. Lex Talionis -- 26. Injuries from vicious animals --^
• 27. Injuries from unprotected pit -- 28. Pecuniary punishment for theft -- 29. Possession of stolen property -- 30. Damage to field or vineyard -- 31. Damage from setting out fire -- 32. Theft from bailee -- 33. Double damages for trespass -- 34. Liability of bailee for hire -- 35. Damages for seduction -- 36. Witchcraft punishable by death -- 37. Sodomy a capital crime -- 38. Death for afflicting widows and orphans -- 39. Law against exaction of usury -- 40. Pledge of neighbor's raiment forbidden -- 41. Blasphemy and seduction -- 42. Offerings to the Lord -- 43. Eating of torn flesh forbidden -- 44. Slander forbidden by the code -- 45. Injunction against perverting justice -- 46. Warning against acceptance of gifts -- 47. Law regarding cultivation of land -- 48. Commandment against worshiping other gods -- 49. Feasts of unleavened bread, firstfruits and ingathering -- 50. The first census -- 51. Ceremonial Law concerning the tabernacle -- 52. The Mosaic and Babylonian codes compared
• III. Leviticus -- 1. The Law in Leviticus -- 2. Ceremony of offerings regulated by code -- 3. Restoration of thing wrongfully acquired -- 4. Law against eating unclean beasts -- 5. Law governing treatment of lepers -- 6. Laws of Egypt and Canaan interdicted -- 7. Incest defined and punished -- 8. Inhibition against false weights and measures -- 9. Prohibition against priest's marriage with divorcee or harlot -- 10. Feasts of atonement and tabernacle -- 11. Stoning to death for blasphemy -- 12. Redemption after sale of land -- 13. Israelites not to be sold into slavery -- IV. Numbers -- 1. The second and third census -- 2. Recompense for trespass -- 3. Defilement of a man's wife -- 4. The law of the Nazirite -- 5. Law governing the Levites -- 6. The Mosaic law of descent -- 7. Concerning vows and bonds -- 8. Disposition of promised land by lot -- 9. Establishment of cities of refuge -- 10. Murderer denied right of asylum -- 11. One witness could not convict of murder --^
• 12. Rule against bribery in murder case -- 13. Marriages within ancestral tribe -- V. Deuteronomy -- 1. Moses' standard for judges -- 2. Other gods: injunction against worshiping -- 3. Debts released after seven years -- 4. People enjoined to obey judgments -- 5. Moses foretells future Hebrew prophet -- 6. Removal of landmarks -- 7. False witness punished by Lex Talionis -- 8. Law of war -- 9. Right of first-born son -- 10. Death for incorrigible son -- 11. Punishment by hanging -- 12. Regulating raiment worn by men and women -- 13. Charging bride with previous unchastity -- 14. Punishment for adultery and fornication -- 15. Harsh rule against bastards -- 16. Bill of divorcement -- 17. Personal responsibility for crime -- 18. Obligation toward poor at harvest -- 19. Beating an authorized punishment -- 20. Husband's brother required to marry his widow -- 21. Joshua appointed ruler -- 22. Authorship of the Pentateuch -- VI. Joshua -- 1. Joshua makes slaves of Hivites --^
• 2. Partition of the Promised Land -- 3. Description of land partitioned -- 4. Joshua's covenant with God -- VII. Judges -- 1. Israel's judges -- 2. Deborah, the female judge -- 3. Gideon tendered hereditary judgeship -- 4. Fraticide of Abimelech -- 5. Jephthah's disqualification to inherit -- 6. Sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter -- 7. Hebrew marriage by capture -- VIII. Ruth -- 1. Boaz recognizes Levirate law applicable to Ruth -- 2. Renunciation of Ruth's brother-in-law under levirate law
• IX. 1 Samuel -- 1. Samuel becomes supreme judge -- 2. Samuel's sons accept bribes -- 3. Samuel's argument against monarchy -- 4. "God save the king" -- 5. Samuel blameless before his people -- 6. Obeying God's laws more important than sacrifices -- 7. Samuel applies Lex Talionis to Agag -- 8. David's trail by combat with Goliath -- 9. Saul's assault upon David -- 10. David marries Saul's daughter, Michal -- 11. Covenant between David and Jonathan -- 12. Saul's murder of the priests -- 13. David no regicide -- 14. David takes Abigail as wife -- 15. David distributes spoils according to Law -- 16. Saul a Felo-de-se -- X. II Samuel -- 1. David secures return of Michal, his wife -- 2. Joab slays Abner -- 3. Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, murdered -- 4. David made king over all Israel -- 5. Mephibosheth inherits Saul's lands -- 6. David's adultery with Bath-sheba and murder of Uriah -- 7. Amnon's ravishment of Tamar and Absalom's revenge -- 8. Absalom's conspiracy and treason --^
• 9. David takes a census of Israel -- XI. I Kings -- 1. Solomon anointed king -- 2. Adonijah claims sanctuary -- 3. David's final advice to Solomon -- 4. Solomon had Adonijah killed -- 5. Solomon takes Joab from the altar -- 6. Solomon takes the daughter of Pharaoh to wife -- 7. Solomon's wise judgment regarding maternity of child -- 8. Consecration of Solomon's temple -- 9. Cherchez la femme -- 10. Jeroboam made king of Israel -- 11. Elijah's vision of God -- 12. Jezebel has Naboth killed to possess his land -- XII. II Kings -- 1. Elijah's judgment against Ahaziah -- 2. Elisha helps a widow deliver her sons as bondmen -- 3. Elisha cures Naaman, the leper -- 4. Jehu destroys Baalites -- 5. Deposition and death of Queen Athaliah -- 6. Amaziah spared the children of his father's murderers -- 7. Ahaz's son's trial by ordeal -- 8. God's judgment during reign of Manasseh -- 9. Zedekiah blinded and taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar -- XIII. I Chronicles --^
• Saul's violation of commandments brought his destruction -- 2. David revered God's name -- 3. David selected able Levitical leaders -- 4. God's judgment forbade David to build temple -- 5. David's commission to Solomon -- XIV. II Chronicles -- 1. Solomon prayes for wisdom to judge well -- 2. Jehoshaphat's charge to the judges -- 3. Israel make children of Judah captives -- 4. Cyrus' proclamation to rebuild the temple -- XV. Ezra -- 1. Complaint that the Jews would not pay taxes -- 2. Darius decrees completion of the temple -- 3. Ezra goes to Jerusalem -- 4. Ezra's commission from Artaxerxes -- 5. Prevalency of mixed marriages -- 6. Ezra decrees divorcement of all foreign women -- XVI. Nehemiah -- 1. Nehemiah commissioned to visit Jerusalem -- 2. Nehemiah's difficulties as governor of Judah -- 3. Nehemiah and Israelites make covenant with God -- 4. Nehemiah expels Tobiah from temple -- 5. Nehemiah testifies against profaners of Sabbath --^
• 6. Nehemiah makes Israelites divorce foreign wives
• XVII. Esther -- 1. Ahasuerus divorces Vashti -- Esther is chosen Queen -- 3. Mordecai discovers treason of Bigthan and Teresh -- 4. Haman secures proclamation for destruction of the Jews -- 5. Esther secures revocation of King's decree -- 6. The festival of Purim -- XVIII. Job -- 1. God's judgment supreme -- 2. Man cannot judge or question God -- 3. Man born to err -- 4. Admissions the strongest evidence -- 5. Job's witness in heaven -- Job proposes a covenant with God -- 6. Crimes are not hidden from God -- 7. God's judgments cannot be annulled -- XIX. Psalms -- 1. God's law brings man's delight -- 2. God judges people -- 3. God's law is perfect -- 4. David would make the Lord his Counselor -- 5. Legal sacrifices will not save the slanderer -- 6. Publication of the commandments -- 7. Penalty of violating commandments -- 8. God's court, compared to man's -- 9. God's covenant with David -- 10. Just judgments mark the strength of kings -- 11. God will cut off the slanderer --^
• XX. Proverbs -- 1. Danger of becoming surety -- 2. Adultery worse than theft -- 3. Safety in multitude of counselors -- 4. Cross-examination breaks down weak cause -- 5. Kings should judge justly -- 6. Punishment of false witness -- 7. False weights an abomination to the Lord -- 8. Corrupt judiciary will overthrow government -- 9. Happy the man who keepeth the law -- 10. Strong drink may pervert justice -- XXI. Ecclesiastes -- 1. Wickedness near the judgment seat -- 2. Profit of the earth for all -- 3. Use of property alone brings happiness -- 4. Both man's and God's laws should be obeyed -- 5. "Fear God and keep His commandments" -- Chapter XXII. Isaiah -- 1. A nation prospers only where justice prevails -- 2. Through God only can justice supersede war -- 3. Prediction concerning the Messiah -- 4. Effects of prohibition -- 5. "Judgment to the line" -- 6. Creature estopped to deny Creator -- 7. The Lord the source of earthly power -- 8. All men witnesses of the Lord --^
• 9. The Lord did not divorce Israel -- 10. When justice standeth afar off -- Chapter XXIII. Jeremiah -- 1. Israel and Judah worship false gods -- 2. Captivity the punishment for deserting God -- 3. God's covenant with Jeremiah -- 4. Penalty for breach of God's covenant -- 5. Israel a forsaken heritage -- 6. False prophets consumed by sword and famine -- 7. Jeremiah in the stocks -- 8. Jeremiah buy inheritance from Hanameel -- 9. Zedekiah blinded by the King of Babylon -- Chapter XXIV. Ezekiel -- 1. The prophet's roll -- 2. Bread by weight and water by measure -- 3. Banishment the penalty for violating God's laws -- 4. Neither buyer nor seller exempt -- 5. Responsibility under the law personal -- 6. Judah like a woman who violated wedlock -- 7. Son not responsible for father's crimes -- 8. Pardon for past sins -- 9. Israel to be stoned like a harlot -- 10. Ezekiel's vision of the Savior -- 11. Clothing prescribed for priests and Levites -- 12. Levite not to marry a divorced woman --^
• 13. Priests to sit in judgment -- 14. Prince not to confiscate subject's property -- 15. Suggested division of civil and ecclesiastical power -- Chapter XXV. Daniel -- 1. Daniel refuses the king's meat -- 2. Daniel saves Babylon's wise men -- 3. Daniel and associates refuse to worship golden image -- 4. Daniel in the lion's den -- 5. God's kingdom everlasting -- 6. Daniel's acknowledgment of the Law -- 7. Tyrannical and sacrilegious king overthrown -- Chapter XXVI. Hosea -- 1. Hosea's "wife of whoredom" -- 2. Asking counsel at the stocks -- 3. God demands mercy rather than sacrifices -- 4. Israel's kings not set up by God -- 5. Monotheism the great principle of God's law -- 6. Israel preserved by her prophets -- Chapter XXVII. Joel -- 1. Penalty for trading in Israelites -- Chapter XXVIII. Amos -- 1. Violation of God's laws brings inevitable punishment -- 2. Seek God and live -- 3. Establish justice and God may forgive -- Chapter XXIX. Jonah -- "The lot fell upon Jonah"
• -- Chapter XXX. Micah -- 1. Flaying a violation of God's law -- 2. Judges judge for reward -- 3. Compliance with higher law alone brings peace -- 4. Prediction concerning the Messiah -- 5. Man's duty to God -- Chapter XXXI. Zechariah -- 1. The Spirit of the Lord all powerful -- 2. "Execute true judgment" -- 3. Zechariah's prediction of the Messiah -- Chapter XXXII. Matthew -- 1. Fulfillment of the divine law -- 2. Testimony of John the Baptist -- 3. Jesus' acknowledgment of the law -- 4. Healing the sick -- 5. Jesus' declaration that He fulfilled the law -- 6. Jesus' interpretation of the commandments -- 7. The Lord's prayer -- 8. "No man can serve two masters" -- 9. "Judge not" -- 10. "The golden rule" -- 11. Christ's testimony on John the Baptist -- 12. Jesus heals on the Sabbath -- 13. Christ's covenant with Peter -- 14. Jesus approved divorce for fornication only -- 15. Jesus rides upon an ass -- 16. Jesus casts out the money changers --^
• 17. Christ stood for governmental authority -- 18. Jesus interprets the Levirate law -- 19. Monotheism the greatest commandment -- 20. Sanctity of an oath -- 21. Mercy and faith more important than tithes -- 22. Treason of Judas Iscariot -- 23. Institution of the Lord's Supper -- 24. Arrest and trial of Jesus -- 25. The resurrection -- Chapter XXXIII. Luke -- 1. Condemnation of lawyers -- 2. Charge against covetousness -- 3. Agree with adversary -- 4. Forgiveness for sin: the prodigal son -- 5. "Kingdom of God is within you" -- 6. Christ's commission to His apostles -- Chapter XXXIV. John -- 1. John's testimony regarding destruction and rebuilding of temple -- 2. Man must be born of water and spirit -- 3. "God is a spirit" -- 4. Jesus is the bread of life -- 5. The law hears before it judges -- 6. Let him without sin cast a stone -- 7. "The truth shall make you free" -- 8. God's law of life everlasting -- 9. "Love one another" -- 10. "Feed My sheep" -- Chapter XXXV. Acts --^
• 1. Early Christians held property in common -- 2. Arrest of Peter and John -- 3. Ananias withholds part of price of his land -- 4. Gamaliel's defense of the apostles -- 5. Stoning of Stephen -- 6. God's gifts may not be purchased -- 7. Saul's commission to arrest in Damascus -- 8. Paul avoids arrest in Damascus -- 9. Controversy over conversion of Gentiles -- 10. Peter's release from prison -- 11. Paul declares Jesus' mission under the law -- 12. Paul and Silas imprisoned in Philippi -- 13. Jason gives security to keep the peace -- 14. Paul brought before Gallio, in Corinth -- 15. Demetrius causes insurrection at Ephesus -- 16. Paul's arrest and prosecution at Jerusalem -- 17. Paul's trial before the Sanhedrin -- 18. Paul's trial before Antonius Felix -- 19. "I appeal to Caesar" -- Chapter XXVI. Romans -- 1. Salvation to all who believe -- 2. God judges the judge -- 3. Not hearers, but doers of the law are justified -- 4. The law established through faith --^
• 5. By mind alone can God's laws be obeyed -- 6. Christ the end of the law -- 7. Love is the fulfillment of the law -- Chapter XXXVII. 1 Corinthians -- 1. Man is the temple of God -- 2. Inviolability of the marriage bond -- 3. The law of power through service -- 4. Man should pray with uncovered head -- 5. Examine yourself before partaking of communion -- 6. Charity the greatest Christian virtue -- 7. Church should not be addressed in unknown tongue -- 8. Women should remain silent in church -- 9. Belief in resurrection essential to salvation -- Chapter XXXVIII. II Corinthians -- 1. Christ stands for liberty -- 2. "God loveth a cheerful giver" -- 3. Paul's testimony regarding Christ -- Chapter XXXIX. Galatians -- 1. Righteousness comes through Christ alone -- 2. The law like a schoolmaster -- 3. Circumcision alone will not save -- 4. Law exemplified by love for neighbor -- Chapter XL. Ephesians -- 1. Christ the earnest of our inheritance -- 2. Duty of husbands and wives --^
• 3. Reciprocal duty of parent and child -- 4. Duty of master and servant -- Chapter XLI. 1 Timothy -- 1. Law made for the lawless -- 2. Qualifications of a bishop -- 3. Qualifications for a deacon -- 4. Charges against elders -- Chapter XLII. II Timothy -- Inspiration of the Scriptures -- Chapter XLIII. Titus -- Christians to obey magistrates -- Chapter XLIV. Hebrews -- 1. Christ's scepter of righteousness -- 2. Christ performed God's oath of Abraham -- 3. Jesus surety for a better testament -- 4. Christ fulfills the new covenant -- 5. Christ the mediator of the New Testament -- 6. Punishment for those rejecting Christ -- 7. Triumph of faith under the law -- 8. God chasteneth whom He loves -- 9. Avoid strange doctrines -- Chapter XLV. James -- 1. Evidence of pure religion -- 2. The poor heirs of God's kingdom -- 3. God's wisdom evidenced by peace -- 4. Avoid taking oaths -- Chapter XLVI. II Peter -- Those despising covenant condemned -- Chapter XLVII. 1 John --^
• 1. John's evidence regarding the resurrection -- 2. Man must love God and His children -- 3. God's record above that of man -- Chapter XLVIII. Revelation -- Saint John's prophetic view.

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• 766424
• SCSB-10409020

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