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 XXIII. THE LESSER LAW (_continued_). An enemy’s cattle. A false report, 359.—Influence of multitude: the world and the Church, 360–1.—Favour not the poor, 361–2.—Other precepts. “A kid in his mother’s milk,” 362. LESSER LAW, V. ITS SANCTIONS xxiii. 20–33. A bold transition: the Angel in Whom is “My Name,” 363.—Not a mere messenger, 364.—Nor the substitute of chap. xxxiii. 2, 3, 365–6.—Parallel verses, 366–7. CHAPTER XXIV. THE COVENANT RATIFIED. THE VISION OF GOD, xxiv. The code is accepted, written, ratified with blood, 368.—Exclusion and admittance. The elders see God: Moses goes farther. Theophanies of other creeds, 369.—How could they see God? 370.—Moses feels not satisfaction, but desire, 371.—His progress is from vision to shadow and a Voice, 372.—We see not each other, 373.—St. Augustine, 373–4.—The vision suits the period: not post-Exilian, 374–5.—Contrast with revelation in Christ, 375. CHAPTER XXV. THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE, xxv. 1–40. The God of Sinai will inhabit a tent. His other tabernacles, 376–7.—The furniture is typical. Altar of incense postponed, 377.—The ark enshrines His law and its sanctions, 377–8.—The mercy-seat covers it, 378–81.—Man’s homage. The table of shewbread, 382–3.—The golden candlestick (lamp-stand), 383–6. THE PATTERN IN THE MOUNT, xxv. 9, 40.