Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-08-27
And this be renders freely l.TfadacIiOn CORRECTLY

And this he renders freely ('TrGduciOn CORRECTLY
thus:
4 Bot as to the bodily substance which possesses in its
soul itself the principle which body like ITSELF Of
il shall not make food.
s. For l will pursue vengeance for this body Of which
the principle resides in your SOULS from the hand Of
living being both fOm the hand Of universal and from
the hand Of his brother, the individual will demand
account Of them both for this SOUL
g. lie who shall shed the blood Of Adam, the universal
man. shall his blood shed by Of Adams fo 10 his
image universally Infected he the Gods made the exste
Of Adam, the universal man.
Dr. Kraitsir translates thus:
L. But the bodys blood with soul like yours not
8. On account of the likeness (in) h I~S will
avenge () the hand of all living and Of man, ODDLY
and spirituality TO the very soul life
g. The bIOOdspiers blood will be split by the blOOdke
for to his . I%Sse God made the bIOOd-like.
The sense of the 9th and 9th verses, as rendered
BY both DOlivet and DR.. Kraitsir seems essentially
the same. Neither contains the denunciation of
penalty to be inflicted by law, institution. The
avenger is the spirit. Il rm drenge It, The penal
ty is spiritual and to touch all mankind, individually
and collectively. Whatever is come of the act of
shedding mans blood for food, is to be OF God he
may use man, his instrumentality, or he may not
But he is to avenge in the universal consequences OF
the violation of the sanctity of the human SOUL the
image of the divine. And the mode in which these
consequences manifest themselves is indicated
mot perhaps obscurely any mind, but more less
clearly each has inward experience that the disas
tiers of sin not much special all but univer
SAID after this manner Ye are all alike of one blood
soul, Kind We are all kin to each each TO all. Ye
are all members of one body. He who touches the
life of his kind to sustain his own, violates his own
life, the life and image of God He violates the soul,
the soul of all mankind, his soul also. And on
all mankind, as well on him, must the judgment
fall If it 90 on, there shall be universal desecra-
ton. Nothing but abstinence herein can save you
from the hideous state, dehuman, in which all flesh is
found to have corrupted its way the earth, and the
whole earth is filled with violence. To say that all
this mystery of consequences is to be the infection of
the penalty Of death the man-slayer, is to pro-
nounce feeble sentence, well as to misinterpret
the text
The sixth verse may indicate the natural conse-
qUeace in the fallen spirit; vengeance, retaliation,
like for like to come upon the shedder of blood, -Or
| it may mean the inward law Of the soul avenged on
ITSELF which he who knows not, knows not yet what
sin means or it may refer TO BOTH Under this law,
tortured Judas went and hanged himself; and Anna
Mas and Sapphire dropped dead. Under this law,
sin calls upon the mountains TO fall it, and the
rocks TO it, and crush ii, and hide it, Under
this law, the murderer escaped from the local statute
of his country, but not from his own soul, comes back
to confess himself his brethren, and deliver him.
self into their hands, to do with him they will. 1t
is omnipresent as God. IF we ascend up into hea-
ven, IT is there; if we make our bed in the grave,
behold it is there also; if take the wings Of the
morning. and dwell IN the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there shall its hand lead u.s. and ats right hand
hold u.s. Men call it the power of conscience. 1t is
the law of Gods justice in the soul of man, his
image.
But whatever be the consequence denounced in the
9th and 9th verses, God HIMSELF in his moral law is
to be its executor. Whatever agency man is to have
i in it, is necessary and natural-not commanded.
Whatever he is to do and be in it, is the instnc-
tive and not the conscious agent of Gods universal
law In the soul. In mans being, and not by his do
ing any special act, the avenger works his work.
Man is to be passive here and not active-Gods in
strument, and not his agent. Who of mankind can
say, lam commanded here lam marked out to do this
or that The lights all, for mankind is one
kind. The law is to execute itself, universally,
| spiritually. You shall not say whence it comes,
whittier it goes 1t asks aid of man or magistrate
to execute il: The magistrate is not yet come. tits
no command do like for like though may be de-
claraton that like for like will be done as 'a they
that take the sword shall perish by the sword Let
man stand still in here of the great law of reri-
butive Justice in the SOUL and wait and see the work
| of Deity. Let him 'meddle nor make in this
work of Deity Let him not thrust himself into the
course of Providence, volunteer, with axe and hal
ter. Fallen man withhold thyself, and pray. Priest
Amounted it is thy hour of application not sacr-
fee. How truly shall it be said herein,
| 'FoOls rush in, where angels fear to tread
Let US now look at the Septuagint, and see what it
gives for these verses 9th and 9th.
| T. But flesh in blood of soul eat not
g. For your blood Of your souls from the hand of all
beasts will require it, and from the hand Of brother
will require the soul of man.
g. Whose sheds the blood Ofman for his blood there shall
be shed, because in the image of God made
The particular things to be noted, in this version
in distinction from English text, are marked in
italics.
First, in 9th verse. For.' The words used in the
Greek k0f gar consequential, to be rendered BY
for not introductive, affirmative additional,
be rendered and SURELY as our Bible gives them.
We shall not eat flesh in the blood of the soul (4th
verse; J for, if We do your blood of your souls from
the hand of all beasts | will require it, and from the
hand of man brother will require the soul of man,
10Th verse; in consequence-this is the natural con-
nexion. The 4th and 9Th verses are two clauses OF
one and the same sentence; the antecedent, the
other consequent they are by the necessity of their
meaning, united together as two links of one chan
the link effect TO its link cause, and nothing but
chanical violence can separate them.*
Second, in the 9Th verse. The word is SOUL not
life, as rendered in our Bible; Psyche stll-anil the
ii is the Greek neuter pronoDn, referring TO blood,
which is neuter in Greek, and cannot refer to SOUL
which in Greek is feminine. And thus The blood of
the soul is TO be required of the beast but of man.
not the blood of the soul, but the soul.
| Third, in 9th verse. 1t seems difficult to deter
mine, if one will interpret them, what the words
marked in italics mean, that is, what precise thought
they convey There is nothing in them to fix the one
meaning which the makers of the Stptuagint version
intended to convey. The words of themselves in
definite. They can signify what has been given above
for the Hebrew they also capable of other as
fair constructions but not of the construction in the
English Bible. As your thought and mine may waver
about the fixed point of the Greek text so ma, our
Interpretation vary but in it ALL the passage varies
not, not. 1t is a fixed point, namely, this
for his blood there shall be she'd Difficult as il is to