.

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 13.

Who is neighbour? Ethics and religion, 315-16.--Science and morals,
317.--A Divine creature. Capital punishment, 318.

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 14.

Justice forbids act: Christ forbids desire. Sacredness of body,
319.--Human body connects material and spiritual worlds. Modifies, while
serves, 320.--Marriage a type, 321.

THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 15.

Assailed by communism, by Rome. Various specious pleas, 322.--Laws of
community binding, 323.--None may judge his own case, St. Paul enlarges
the precept, 324.

THE NINTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 16.

Importance of words. Various transgressions, 325.--Slander against
nations, against the race. Love, 326-7.

THE TENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 17.

The list of properties, 328.--The heart. The law searches, 329.

THE LESSER LAW, xx. 18-xxiii. 33.

A remarkable code. The circumstances, 331.--Moses fears: yet bids them
fear not, 332-3.--Presumption v. awe. He receives an expanded decalogue,
an abridged code, 334.--Laws should educate a people; should not outrun
their capabilities, 335-6.--Five subdivisions, 337.

I. THE LAW OF WORSHIP, xx. 22-26.

Images again forbidden, 337.--Splendour and simplicity. An objection,
338.--Modesty, 339.

CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (_continued_).

II. RIGHTS OF THE PERSON, xxi. 1-32.

The Hebrew slave. The seventh year. Year of jubilee. His family,
340.--The ear pierced. St. Paul's "marks of the Lord." Assaults,
341.--The Gentile slave, 342. The female slave, 342-3.--Murder and
blood-fiends, 343.--Parents. Kidnappers, 344.--Eye for eye. Mitigations
of _lex talionis_, 344-5.--Vicious cattle, 346.

III. RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, xxi. 33-xxii. 15.

Negligence: indirect responsibility: various examples, 346-8.--Theft,
348.

CHAPTER XXII. THE LESSER LAW (_continued_).

IV. VARIOUS ENACTMENTS, xxii. 16-xxiii. 19.

Disconnected precepts. No trace of systematic revision. Certain capital
crimes, 348-9.

SORCERY, xxii. 18.

Abuses have recoiled against religion, 349.--Sorcerers are impostors,
but they existed, and do still, 350.--Moses could not leave them to
enlightened opinion. Propagated apostacy, 351.--Traitors in a theocracy,
352.--When shall witchcraft die? 353.

THE STRANGER, xxii. 21; xxiii. 9.

"Ye were strangers," 354.--A fruitful principle. Morality not
expediency, 355.--Cruelty often ignorance: Moses educates, 356.--The
widow. The borrower, 357.--Other precepts, 358.

CHAPTER XXI