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Show ~2..8. &nl Peace Hebrews, (uflcined fome puni£bment for ·· · · their craft · For, they were put under a , . • certain pe;fonal fervitude t, wh~n, if !,~t ~r~t~~~~~~' ;, they had dealt openly , they might have tGnJ.emi, "' ~\.om n.... . d . .b di . 1us to. 3• been recerve mto a tn . utary con t1on. F~{ttf:4 .v_erw ! ~ lt&ll/lf. X X X. The words of an oath not to be extended too far. YEt is not the fignifica.tion of an oath to be extended beyond the receivedcu• {lome of fpeech. Therefore they were not perjurd, who, vvhen they had fworn the.y would not give their daughters in marn· age to the Benjamites , permitted the;~· .. v:dbed to live with the raptors. For, tiS one thing to give ; another thing not to t Nee bor~•b.t'IJ· require that which is taken awayt. 4m· ~~ i::bft!'b,'ta ,brofe , ot this deed_: l!'hich indrtlgence ait in hac hi~ (eemtth to carry wtth tt a congruous re· ftoda Jofe· venge upon their intemperance, when thq phus. Seneca , were permitted only to enjoy whom they exc~rptorum ;fl. J . h h r: r · f""ar· 6 • 1-. Lex ettm hadravtJ',eu;w1t o~t t eJo'e'!"mtyo, e terJtt, qui juvat riage *. Whereto 1s not unhke , that th exulem, ~on q~i e/f.chaians , when the Romans allowed P..atiatttr t~_vare. not of fome things done by them , ~nd De officm l lb. confirmed by oath, requelled them to al· L::i..1 1ci. 11~ 4u.b. . 3 r l 1 r d d not 9• ter what themte ves. p ea~e. ; an k •• 1 bind the .Ackaians ~1th rehgwn to mha~ the things vo1d, wh1ch by oath they ef.labliihed. xxxr. ar XXXI. An oath hind.r not, being made ef unlawful! matter. TH~t .an oath may be of force , It IS re• qmfite the obligation b~ * la vvfull. • 'trallat hoc Wherefore a fworn promife of a thino un- bme AmbroJi~· law~ull, either naturally, or by divi;e in- de .. offic. ~· _& terdt6t, or by human alfo (of wh· h h _ al11 relat1 zn f ) '11 1 ' ere ciN/te u qzttt [a; 't ehr Ph W·t I hh ave no force at all • Well ,n• . •.,-,,·. m 4•· Pe r t•:· ait 1 o t e Jew*: Whofoever,for his nethf!CCtt.no1J1• h~ths fakff,goes about any injuft atfion,let Co1ml. Hll~r.nn k.!zow' he is not an obferver' hut an dm{is rtlatl '~ everfor of an oath '. wht.c h H. wo1 .t hr y o,I''I'_om. 3· con~~- . 1 l1orum Gall111 l~eat care and religio~ , and where- 6o in Hincmari Wtth honeft and righteous things are wont opufcu/unoa to be confirmed. For he_adds one fault to~nuc~. ' another; to an oath not ritrhtl d , d .fhllo tit fit· fo h . h . ~ :y ma e,an &Jal. Leg. om w tc tt had been better to ahftai he ~~ds an a,Cf unlawful!. wherefore' d,: ftazm.ng ftom the unjuft action' le't him pray to God,whofe property u to have mer-t).,, that he may obtain his pardon. For to c ooJe adouhle evil/, when one mar be ea-fed of the one half' is extreme folly and mad?efs. An example hereof rna be oi- - ~ ven m David' who fihared Nahal wh; f .~am. 2.f. he f ware h · , m 1 • ,.. l'k e would k1 I. Cicero mentions t Seneca:Pr.e· a 1 e ex~mple in the vow of Agamem- (tare fa!eor JM!fo nom_; D?onyjius ·Halicarnejfonjis in h me tac,tamft• con JuratiOn of the Dece . . b t e dem , fi [cetere preffi o h mvtre a out op- cartat: interim It is ~'0 t ~ Commo~wealth.tAmbrofe*:fcel~ efi ~des. ~~metzmes agamft duty to perform a Ubuntmm va-promz1e, to.k!ep an oath • Auoc ufim' : /'J~o nes l..e t interdum • Q.. 3 faith 0'JnJ.·, c. I, c.ufr. |