13/33 Had a power to chastise him according to his merit, which might be very great.2. Is sufficiently punished with his own loss.3.May be presumed not to have done this purposely or maliciously.' "Either and all of which explanations, or any other which can be given, only bring more clearly to view the idea of 'money' as a reason why the master is not to be punished, for causing the death of a slave by whipping, if the slave happens to continue a day or two, no matter under what mutilations and sufferings. We find the Most High decreeing perpetual bondage in certain cases, and more than all, as we have seen, _the forcible separation of husband and wife_ among slaves. Let me turn to Exodus xxi. Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. |