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A rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weapon hence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.
Who can describe the anguish of that mind which feels itself impaled upon the iron of arbitrary power its living, writhing, helpless victim! every human susceptibility tortured, its sympathies torn, and stung, and bleeding always feeling the death-weapon in its heart, and yet not so deep as to kill that humanity which is made the curse of Its existence.
A rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weapon hence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.
"If a man smite his servant with a rod." The instrument used, gives a clue to the intent. See Numbers xxxv. 16, 18. It was a rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weapon hence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.
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