THE LAW OF MOSES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3720, 22 November 1927, Page 3

THE LAW OF MOSES.

QUOTED TO WANGANUI The Bible has been freely quoted during the present sessions of the Supreme Court at Wanganui. On Friday Mr. L. Cohen, in the midst of his address to the jury remarked : “Let me quote from the book of my ancestors.” Proceeding, he commenced to read Deuteronomy, chapter 19, verse 14, which opens: “Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s land mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance.” His Honour, interrupting: We are not administering the laws of the Jews in this Court; we are administering British laws. To read such passages is to read something irrelevant and misleading. Mr. Cohen • submitted that however misleading the law of the Bible was, it was the foundation of the law of the land. The remaining portion which Mr Cohen no doubt intended to quote from the book of his ancestors was as follows: “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. “If a false witness rise u pagainst any man, to testify against him that which is wrong, then both men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges which shall be in these days, and the judges shall make diligent inquisition and behold if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely a-■i-ainst his brother. _ ° “Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother, so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.”