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Article 104 – The size of the stone used in stoning shall not be too large to kill the convict by one or two throws and at the same time shall not be too small to be called a stone. [40] Depending upon the details of the case, the stoning may be initiated by the judge overseeing the matter or by one of the original witnesses to the adultery. [40]
[1] Sacrificing offspring to Molech. [2] Worshipping Baal Peor. [3] A prophet who says to follow gods other than Yahweh. [4] A person who follows gods other than Yahweh. [5] A false prophet, one whose prophecies do not come to pass. [6]
A case against capital punishment can be made from John 8, where Jesus speaks words that can be construed as condemning the practice. [1] There are however many more Bible verses that command and condone capital punishment, and examples of it being carried out.
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is considered by some to be a pseudepigraphical [1] passage found in John 7:53–8:11 [2] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives. A group of scribes and Pharisees confronts Jesus, interrupting his teaching.
Here you have, 1. A recommendation of God's ordinance of marriage, that it is honourable in all, … 2. A dreadful but just censure of impurity and lewdness." [37] John Wesley believed this scripture and the sure judgment of God, even though adulterers "frequently escape the sentence of men." [38]
The nickname Wicked Bible seems to have first been applied in 1855 by rare book dealer Henry Stevens.As he relates in his memoir of James Lenox, after buying what was then the only known copy of the 1631 octavo Bible for fifty guineas, "on June 21, I exhibited the volume at a full meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, at the same time nicknaming it 'The Wicked Bible,' a name that ...
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 421. T&T Clark. ISBN 9780567045409. Grabbe, Lester L., ed. (2008). Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 BCE): 1 The Archaeology. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 491. T&T Clark. ISBN 9780567599131. (Review Archived 2021-04-25 at the Wayback Machine)