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In the next verse, "He that stealeth a man," &c., the SAME PRINCIPLE is wrought out in still stronger relief. The crime to be punished with death was not the taking of property from its owner, but violence to an immortal nature, the blotting out of a sacred distinction making MEN "chattels."
Human laws may, it is true, bear me out in this man-stealing, which is not less flagrant than that committed on the coast of Africa: but, says the Great Law-giver, "The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day:" and, it is a part of this "word," that "he that stealeth a man shall surely be put to death."
Hearts are shameless, and every man seizeth the goods of his neighbour. The man of gracious countenance is wretched, and the good are everywhere treated as contemptible. When a man stirreth thee up to wrath by his wickedness, his evil acts make all people laugh. One robbeth, and everyone stealeth the possessions of his neighbour.
In other of his temptations, he stealeth on like a fox, but in this Turk's persecution for the faith, he runneth on roaring with assault like a ramping lion. This temptation is, of all temptations, also the most perilous.
No wonder that God, in a code of laws prepared for such a people at such a time, should light up on its threshold a blazing beacon to flash terror on slaveholders. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall be surely put to death." Ex. xxii. 16. God's cherubim and flaming sword guarding the entrance to the Mosaic system!
"The women came to me," she panted with difficulty, and Ootah had to bend his ear to her mouth so as to hear. "They were angry. They said 'She stealeth souls! Annadoah stealeth souls! They said, 'Annadoah hath caused the death of many children! Ootah! Ootah! They came, as they do when thou art absent. They threatened me they called upon the spirits, as they once called to them beneath the sea.
Hateful unto me are all that slink around half-closed windows! Piously and silently doth he stalk along on the star-carpets: but I like no light-treading human feet, on which not even a spur jingleth. Every honest one's step speaketh; the cat however, stealeth along over the ground. Lo! cat-like doth the moon come along, and dishonestly.
The word Ganabh here rendered stealeth, means the taking what belongs to another, whether by violence or fraud; the same word is used in the eighth 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?
Neither is Zarathustra indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God; but sickness and a sick frame remain even in his tears. Many sickly ones have there always been among those who muse, and languish for God; violently they hate the discerning ones, and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness.
"If a man be found stealing any of his brethren, and maketh merchandise of him, or selling him, that thief shall die." "Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons." "And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death." Because it is an open violation of all human equality, of the laws of Nature and of nations.
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