6. Personal injuries, not fatal, came under special statute. In the case of a mutual quarrel and fight, personal injuries, less than fatal, were punished by requiring their author to pay for the wounded man’s loss of time and for his being “thoroughly healed” [nursing and medical services].――――The master who smote his servant unto immediate death, must surely be punished. But if the servant survived a day or two, the presumption would be that the master did not intend to kill. His loss in the services of his servant was considered his punishment.――――Other special cases appear Ex. 21: 22 and Deut. 25: 11, 12 which were better read than rehearsed.――――The principle of punishment by retaliation――[“lex talionis”]――like for like――was applied in all appropriate cases (Lev. 24: 18–21). “If a man cause a blemish in his neighbor, as he hath done, so shall it be done unto him: Breach for breach; eye for eye,” etc. (Ex. 21: 23–25 and Deut. 19: 21). IV. _Crimes Against Chastity_; (Violations of the Seventh Command). The necessity for laws on this point at once discriminating, wise, and stringent, will be sufficiently obvious when we consider (1.) The strength of the passion to be controlled――constitutionally common to all ages of the world:――――(2.) The sacredness of the marriage relation and the inestimable value of moral purity in all human society――also common to all ages of the world’s history:――――(3.) (Peculiar to the earlier ages) the necessity of defining the limits of consanguinity within which marriage should be prohibited, and all sexual connection sternly forbidden. Perhaps we need to remind ourselves that the race having sprung from a single pair and the world having been repeopled a second time from one family, those primitive examples may have sent down for many generations a certain looseness which called for special restraint and a carefully defining law:――――(4.) The crimes of Sodom, their polluting influence in so good a family as that of Lot; the low morals of Egyptian life; some sad manifestations in the early history of Jacob’s family; the horrible contagion of Moab and Midian when the tribes of Israel came socially near them;――these and kindred facts will be readily recalled as in point to show the necessity of vigorous legislation in the Mosaic code to counteract these untoward influences of their antecedent life and of surrounding society.――――The thoughtful student of the Mosaic code as expanding and applying the seventh commandment will be painfully impressed with the disadvantages under which it labored by reason of the toleration of polygamy, concubinage, and domestic servitude. In some points the law bore with special severity upon woman as compared with man――a sort of imperfection which was simply an inevitable result of tolerating those ancient evils.――――It scarcely need be suggested that the value of this part of the Mosaic code as a definite model for Christian legislation is