Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-08-27

And see the correspondence Of the blessing Of ir-
crease and the appointment Of food, in this chapter
to Noab and in the first chapter Of Genesis, to Adam
Gen 2s And God blessed them, and God said unto them
Be fruitful and multiply and epenh the EARTH and subjue
anil dominion the fish Of the and over the
fowl Of the air. and every living thing that moveh
up n the earth.
20 sAnd G,d said Behold given you every herb
bearing seed which upon the face Of all The earth, and
every tec which the fruit Of tree yielding seed
10 you Il sbaIl be FOL meat
Nothing there of penalty for crime; and nothing
also here in this 9th chapter That not the thing
TO be settled There; as here is the blessing of in
crease, and the assignment of food. Any such thing
as penalty for crime there, and here, is wholly in
congruous.
The period for the annunciation of the municipal
law is not as yet. That shall come by and by in the
progress of the race, but is not now Now is the
period of populatng and subsisting. The municipal
law grows into the state OF declaration and permanent
enactment afterward
From the beginning of Genesis, down to the Mosaic
code, from Cain down, no murder which is mentioned
in the Bible-and there seyera-is stated to have
been punished with DEATH Distinctly, the children
Of Jacob Simeon and Levi, are related to have CON-
mtted most treacherous murder, and their father pro-
nounced the curse upon them for It, And Moses is
related to have murdered the Egyptian. Yet they
were not punished with death. The Time, the age did
not interpret this law demanding penalty for the
shedding of human blood in what we call murder.
COntemporaneous exposition Is reliable authority IN
all courts which administer law. What meaning
did the age which enacted law, put upon it = Ask
Judges; and when that is known, the meaning is con-
elusive.
If we should set down the title of the divine statute
contained in the first of the 9th chapter of
Genesis, it would stand thus = Concerning Noah and
las posterity their blessing, their increase, their food
In this scriptural statute, the mention of murder
ho in n
law of the United States, entitled AN Act concern
ing the distribution of the Public Lands, you should
find denuncation Of the slave trade as piracy, and
the penalty of death for its punishment In the one
case the other the things do not belong together
naturally found together. by any thought of
divine or human order shall never be set together.
Nothing but the absolute certainty of language, leav-
ing for Interpretation, could make 1t possible
to believe that the necessary fitness of things should
be transgressed.
In the Supplement to the Revised Statutes OF
Massachusetts,, stands act entitled, IAN Act con-
corning the Supreme Judicial Court and Court OF
Common Pleas The 4th section of the act is as
follows: There shall be no appeal from any judg-
Of the Court of Common Pleas upon the verdict
of jury; but all questions of law, except such as
may arise on pleas of abatement, may be carried up
the Supreme Judicial Court by bill Of exceptions,
writ of error And yet this statute does not take
away from any criminal found guilty by the verdict
ply because the subject matter Of the statute is found
to be civil and not criminal cases. Yet the words of
the section are wholly general and of themselves do
cover as well criminal civil cases. The subject
matter of the statute restraints their meaning to ITSELF
You must look elsewhere in the statutes to find pro-
vision for appeal in criminal here is not its
fitting place.
The title of the Noachic statute, if set forth after
the manner of a law, would be above stated.
Murder would find no place in If; would be wholly
out of place in it. The shedding of blood spoken of
would be all in reference to the killing of man
in anger or revenge, the like, but solely in refe
renee to the main subject Of the revelation in the
statute, food-shedding mans blood for food.
Strikingy appropriate TO this view is familiar
in the laws of England used by Blackstone TO illus
rate the rule of construction, that the subject matter is
TO determine the meaning of the words of statute.
The Pope of Rome claimed the right appoint the cler-
gy England the rich ivings in the church, and
ceive pay for them, and these called provisions.
law of Edward I'LL. forbds all ecclesiastical persons
to purchase provisions at Rome. But no nterpreta-
ton would make this prohibition against purchasing
meats, grain, or any other yictual at Rome. The
word provisions would have reference to the subject
matter of the statute, which was wholly another
thing.
The subject matter of this Noachic statute is food
The blood Of man, spoken of in it, is the blood of
man, shed for food 1t prohibits cannibalsm; that is
what it does Whose sheddeth mans blood for food, By
man shall ms blood De shed.
You shall eat all green things, all vegetables, and
fruits, and all animal flesh but there stop; lay not
your hand on man to STAY him for food be he beast
or man who does this, he must die, for is made
in Gods image, and to eat hmm is desecration.
This is the only natural and consistent inerpreta-
ton which you put upon the 9th chapter of Gene
sis, as it now stands in the common text of the
English Bible as we have it, translated for US by
command of James l.: which is the Bible, according
to the knowledge of its English translators and the
pleasure of King James.
If one of the violences with which the earth was
filed before the food had been cannibaIism, aud it
had been named in the Sth chapter is there per-
son who would doubt about the Interpretation which
has been giyeni But what was this mystery of
wckedness, this solemn all flesh had corrupted has
cdy The earth, and The whoe earth filed Nth
riOence that it must be drowned in the baptismal
waters of flood to cleanse it :! May it not be this
very thing! What could, like this, ill up the mea-
sure of all iniquity, and make exterminating
flood baptism needful!
This is the only consistent exposition of the chap
ter, as it now stands, supposng the translation
in Jamess Bible to be correct. But that transla-
tion is incorrect. The 4th verse of it is wholly
mistranslated 1t can be shown, from true transla-
ton of the original Hebrew text of the 4h verse,
and from the Samaritan version that the view above
set forth is the exact word of scripture. The Sep
uagnt version also, strongly and srikiDgly, though
not conclusively, sustsins it. And we will now go
to SEEK and set forth the true meaning OF the text
from these sources.
Appealing from the English Bible, three sources
where TO seek authentic justice far in this time
it can be had, the original Hebrew the Samari-
tan, and the Greek. s,--a.
1. There stands the revelation whatever it is, en-
balmed in the original Hebrew.
This language ceased to be spoken by the Jews,
after their captivity at Babylon about six hundred
years before Christ. When they returned Jcrusa-
lem, they spoke new language called the Aramean,
Chaldaic. which they had learned In the f,reinn