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Over the gateway of that system, fearful words were written by the finger of God "HE THAT STEALETH A MAN AND SELLETH HIM, OR IF HE BE FOUND IN HIS HAND, HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH." Ex. xxi. 16.
John, even if he had not been so worn out, could not have reached the place in such a storm, either by land or sea. But the neighbours, without seeming premeditation, gathered in John's cottage at night, and he opened his Bible and read aloud: "Terrors take hold on him, as waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. Can it be imagined that when the wicked are in this distress, but that they will desire to be saved? Therefore he saith again, 'Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
The giving of the law at Sinai, immediately preceded the promulgation of that body of laws and institutions, called the "Mosaic system." Over the gateway of that system, fearful words were written by the finger of God "HE THAT STEALETH A MAN AND SELLETH HIM, OR IF HE BE FOUND IN HIS HAND, HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH." See Exodus, xxi. 16.
Three years after, in 1649, the following law was placed upon the statute-book of the Massachusetts Colony: "If any man stealeth a man, or mankind, he shall surely be put to death."
FRIAR. "Stealeth! Holy Saint Dunstan, dare ye speak thus of so great a lord a son of the Church, a companion of our noble Duke? Steal, forsooth! The poor have nought to steal!" BELTANE. "They have their lives." FRIAR. "Not so, they and their lives are their lord's, 'tis so the law and " BELTANE. "Whence came this law?" FRIAR. "It came, youth it came aye, of God!"
The word Ganabh here rendered stealeth, means, the taking of what belongs to another, whether by violence or fraud; the same word is used in the eight commandment, and prohibits both robbery and theft. The crime specified, is that of depriving SOMEBODY of the ownership of a man. Is this somebody a master? and is the crime that of depriving a master of his servant?
That is truth, pardy, said Dixon, and, or I err, a pregnant word. Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord for he was of a wild manner when he was drunken and that he was now in that taking it appeared eftsoons.
Buck Mulligan erect, with joined hands before him, said solemnly: He who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord. Thus spake Zarathustra. His plump body plunged. We'll see you again, Haines said, turning as Stephen walked up the path and smiling at wild Irish. Horn of a bull, hoof of a horse, smile of a Saxon. The Ship, Buck Mulligan cried. Half twelve. Good, Stephen said.
Then it would have been "he that stealeth" a servant, not "he that stealeth a man." If the crime had been the taking an individual from another, then the term used would have been expressive of that relation, and most especially if it was the relation of property and proprietor! The crime is stated in a three-fold form man stealing, selling, and holding.
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