 | Lucretia Chapman - 1832 - 228 pages
...take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but • he shall surely be put to death — for the land cannot be cleansed of...shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." In this case it is the blood of a husband — of a father — which has been shed — and shed too... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 684 pages
...death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for BLOOD DEFILETH THE LAND, AND THE LAND CANNOT BE CLEANSED OF THE BLOOD THAT IS SHED THEREIN, BUT BY THE BLOOD OF HIM THAT SHED IT." In the remarks that we shall have occasion to make on this ordinance, we must of necessity be more... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...put to death. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are, for blood it defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Numb, xxxv. 31. 33. Every man's brother, &C.] And ( God) hath made of one blood all nations of men... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pages
...which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death. For blood it defileth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 5 Woe unto them that shed the blood of war in peace ; and that condemn and kill the just, and he doth... | |
 | James Peggs - 1832 - 550 pages
...xxxv. 33 : — " So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are ; for blood it dejileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it." " The connivance of our Government in the burning of widows, and in human sacrifices, and in other... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 806 pages
...shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death ; for the land cannot be cleansed of...shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it."* With regard to the particular mode of punishment which may be thought best calculated to defend every... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...xxxv. " Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, but he shall surely be put to death : the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." This is so spoken as that which concerned all Israel, not one man alone, to see performed ; and if... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pages
...shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death ; for the land cannot be cleansed of...prosecution, (that by appeal, of which hereafter) (29), wherein the king himself is excluded the power of pardoning murder : so that, were the king of... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1836 - 416 pages
...shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death ; for the land cannot be cleansed of...but by the blood of him that shed it." And therefore the British law has provided one course of prosecution, that by appeal, wherein the King himself is... | |
 | 1836 - 746 pages
...is written, ' So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are j for blood it defileth the land ; and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.' " (Ibid. 33.) This is a strong and beautiful passage ; but it is, as the reader sees, no authority... | |
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 
