Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... gular in the sense of any law; Deut. XVII:20; once also, as summarizing the whole law, Deut. XXX:11; Cf. Deut. VIII:1, 2 and 6; XXXI:5. This completes the list of general descriptive terms which are used in the Pentateuch to denote the Law or some portion of it. They do not present to us any unusual aspects or seem to advance us very much towards the unknown. The value of the investigation thus far pursued will only appear in the contrast which these words furnish to the next class of legal terms to be examined. These general terms furnish comparison in the investigations to follow which will assist greatly the differentiation of other legal terms and furnish that element of logical comparison without which deduction is not complete. II. TECHNICAL TERMS The examination of the general legal terms in the Pentateuch has given us a broad, plain background. Against this background, and in sharp contrast with it, is to be seen a small group of technical legal terms in the Pentateuch, for the clear delimiting of which the examination of the general, descriptive law words has prepared the way. All the legal terms of the Pentateuch have heretofore, in Pentateuchal discussions, been regarded as of one kind, as being all general terms often interchangeable, and so without any very exact discrimination between different kinds of laws, except where some individual law, as the "law of the burnt offering," or the "law of the meat offering" is designated. Occasional passing notice of "the Book of Judgments" (Oxford Hexateuch, I. p. 111), or the calling of some laws "technical" without making any technical use of them (Kautzsch), references which are not carried into the analysis of the Pentateuch or made to play any part in the discussions of...
