In a culture where maiming a person could get your entire family wiped out, requiring proportionality in punishment set the people of God apart, as being not bound by endless cycles of blood vengeance.
That's interesting and I'd not known that. Thank you for increasing my knowledge.
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Date: 2005-09-03 11:26 am (UTC)That's interesting and I'd not known that. Thank you for increasing my knowledge.
Good other points as well.