Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-10-15
Capital Punishment.

translation given in my last Of the 4th 5th and 9th
OF the ninth chapter Genesis he also gives
correct translation Of them, thus
a. But the bodily substance winch possesses in lis
soul itself the principle which makes its body like ITSELF
Of Il you shall nuke food. ,a p -, a
D. or VIII pursue vengeance Tor this body Of which
the principle resides in your souls from the hand Of eye-
~ living being, both from hand man.
from the hand Of his brother, the individual will
demand account Of them both for this soul.
O. He who shall shed the blood Of Adam, the univer-
sal man. shall see his blood shed by Of Adam for
10 his image universally reflected he the Gods made the
existence of Adam, the universal man."
lay this before my readers translation which D.
Olvet, and his endorser j. w. say a correct one.
AT the proper place, shall take il up and il
rect as against them, without however admitting its
RICHNESS Tor any other purpose. arrfs .i-s
What is translation OF passage in any book
sacred profane7 Is il literal rendering OF the words
OF the passage into the words of the language which
the translation is to be made the coocaon of the words
oeing the same Or, is it using such words will in
the language into which the translation is be made,
express the same idea that expressed in the passage
the originate Most assrredIy the latter Then correct
translation, is translation that gives the meaning Of the
original and not translation that gives literal render
ing OF the words placing them in the order In
Of every three this last method of translate
/ ing would produce an incorrect one. fr.-s.. ls.f
will try and elucidate this English scholar.
Take the 9th Of the above quotation stands
the common version Hh0so sheddeth mans blood, by
shall his Mood be shed for the image Of God made
he man. With Walkers octave dictionary, make the
following translation Of it, 4Ry ch0ut restriction pors
attendants high erfracfiOn By TIE male Of the hu-
species shall has kindred be spilled for the corpOreaI
representation Of The Supreme Beng used he human be-
ing This, like ID OSets acarricature rendering and
therefore Ear from being because the words
substituted do not placed in this context have the
meaning that the words in the common version have
| in their context. ft 8if aer.-1-rio r.irta a -
And yet such method of is used to deceive
the ignorant and unwary and IT IS too often successful,
when, in the of the scriptures, the original
an ancient dead language. Notwithstanding we have
them translated into the English language, and great
many English versions extani made by learned Pous, and
we have who, by pretending TO go back the ORR
ginal, and "elevaiing @ the whole subject into the
mystic style OF The great primitive eastern scripture,
derake to avoid the force of what God said man. and
palm translation, made on the plan OF the example
above given to US, being what God really said.
They will dare attempt translate from the Eng
ish Bible as have done aud say that their view is the
proper translation and meaning of it, because every body
would at once detect them in their sophistry But as
the body of the community do not understand the origin
al they pretend to go back 10 il, and think, by that
means, they Hysy the matter, and attain their OBJ
iect without being detected And alas they too
successful. -rv T
Any person that kills arycf he human family, shall be
PIT to death by the community Of mankind expresses the
idea contained in the passage, in different words, and
therefore might be said be translation of it, and yet
| it is literal as the first given.
conceive that have said enough explain what
mean on this branch of the subject, and to show why
English scholar only, prefer TO take what many
learned and pious men, my sense, and the
concurrent consent Of those who have used the English
language for the last three centuries say is what God said
| or J. w. g., or even of my friend F.
"The subject Of the Noachic food.' So
says J. w Is. This being major proposition and
teral one IN his argument, shall examine IT. For he
correctly observes that the meaning Of the words OF
tute, be construed with eye the subject
| of the statute. 10000 rf-H an
The first enactment of this "Noachic statute" is Be
fruitful, and multiply and rePtcnish the earth. Where
there any eating in this There is Then, if MIR.
j. w. b. is correct, here is foreign to the
subject matter of the statute, and cannot therefore,
cordDg the rule be construed all which is absurd
The second enactment is that the fear of man, and the
dread of shall be upon eUery beast of the earth, l
ofthe AR, and fish of the sea- This law is understood,
and is in force to this day. every ones daily obser
walton proves and there word about food in it
NOT auson to it. The third deliuers all Of
them into the hand Of man, and is the DEED by whlch 10
this day. he his dominion them, and holds
his property in them. Nothing all about food yet and
dominion on the one part, and subsection and feay on
the ohes esse,ed and whole animal creation granted
and conveyed away. These laws still IN force, and
well UNDERSTOOD and to this day have never been thought
to relate to food that food was any part OF he SUBJ
ject of these The fourth enactment makes
ta'cM for TO eat any part Of the ans1at creation
lceh by the tco prerons eRacmens, cere pat IN fear o.
him, and IN TO him, like manner, before
that time il lawful for him to the green herb
This enactment relates 10 food and it, and the following
one, which restrictive provso annexed TO il, are the
only in relation that subject the whole statute
Leaving the which follow entirely out of the
question: having shown that there three, which stand
before those the subject Of food, subject entirely
different ask by what rule do decide that the sub
ect Of this whole food and that alone. GER
any cannot any rational rule which will bring us to
that conclusion.
The statute Gf you call II single one) given to Noah
and his sons does not end till you get TO the end OF the
18th In addition the three already noted, pass
ing by those relation food and those IN contro-
versy, have the first again reced-then covenant
against another ood-and then the law establishing the
rainbow, and making and remembrance OF this
And notwithstanding all these various sub
iects are treated Of and murder and It's punishment also
yet avoid these last named laws and rub them OUT
must be made TO believe that command TO multiply
and repIensh the earth-a law impresslng fear and
dread of man on the whole animal creaiion-a grant OF
the animal creation to mana declaration that human
blood would be required the hand of beast, and man.
and every mans brother and that man should shed the
blood of him that shed mans blood and the for 1t
"a covenant against another nood-and law eslaois-
the rainbow and its use-ALL MEAN SOMETHING |
TO EAT, and ~ nothing else :! ! o fig! Such logic
j. w. b. this be the subject OF the statute
and prove this assumption he makes another and that
is that cannbalism had become unrersal before the food
From this he goes infer that God in starting the
again, expressly prohibited it in the fourth, h aud
sixth verses of The code given TO Noah and bus sons
There proof only in the imagination OF such dream
j. w b., that f.st of Gny KIND eaten before
the flood, much less human flesh. And think have
shown clearly, that the subject of the Noacc statute IS
not food alone. If we allow an assumption, entirely
without any evidence 10 sustain it, to be put down
major proposition; and then allow another assumption
evidence, TO prove that major; and then allow our
minds be convinced from the conclusions and deduc
tons, correctly made from such premises, will,
of couse allow ourselves be duped and deceived very
easily.
NV. B. very cunningIy weaves these assumptions into
his argument The reader will see, by examining his
communication again that these assumptions untrue
his labor all lost, and his whole fabric falls have
shown that the subject of the Noachic statute IS not
food MISUNDERSTANDING the controveried passages out
And assert land every examine for HIMSELF
which is the only way this kind of negative can be
proyen) that there was no law of God before the food
authorizing any thing excepting every herb
bearing seed and every tree, in which is the fruit of
tree Welding seed and that there not one word on