Miracles

[mrnoodle]

I never said that our law was plagarized from the OT. I said that biblical precepts were instrumental in helping the FF's write law. They even say it themselves (don't feel like goin into finding quotes - spent all night with a stomach virus, and I can barely keep my head up).

Well the first two and the second half of 20:13 are certainly not reflected in US law, and the others are pretty common in human society.

I was referring to your "old-time religion" quote more than anything. I got off-thread.

These quotes are too different, in both phrasing and meaning, to be matched up. One is saying that no man is inherently inferior based on the social class or nation into which they were born. The second is saying that differences don't matter because everyone is inferior to Jesus.

In Jewish society, people who weren't Jews were considered to be a lesser class. Greeks, in particular, were seen as one step above dung. That verse is very much a "social class doesn't matter" reference, and Paul's hardline Jew associates detested his feelings on that matter. Again, it's not a direct link, it's a parallel.

These seem to share the barest of meanings, but are quite different. The first seems to say that property confiscated in a treason trial must be returned when the subject dies (is this respected in any current law? Odd.). The other restricts executions to the criminal, but not their family. Both put a restriction on how much a family can be punished for the crimes of one member, but they do so in extremely different ways.

The important connection is "corruption of blood". It was common, when someone broke the law and couldn't pay their dues, for the perps family (sometimes for several generations) to be held accountable for the tab. That passage is specifically about treason (a death penalty offense, btw), but the corruption of blood issue is directly parallel.