Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 19
Comp. Ex. xxi. 24, 25; Lev. xxiv. 17–22; Deut. xix. 11–21; Matt. v. 38.
But the new law’s wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to tranquillity the pristine ferocity of “glaives” and “lances,” and to remodel the pristine execution of “war” upon the rivals and foes of the law into the pacific actions of “ploughing” and “tilling” the land.1179 1179
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 25
VERSE (12) - De 19:13,21
