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To: NYer
Mosaic law forbids compelling a witness to testify against himself.

Do you have a Biblical cite for that statement?

49 posted on 05/05/2007 1:11:04 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
Do you have a Biblical cite for that statement?

Mr. Schoeman is of course speaking from a rabbinical perspective, not a sola scriptura one.

Torah requires two or three witnesses to condemn someone a capital offense (Dt 17:6), and there's no indication that the testimony of the offender (obtained under compulsion) "counts" as one of the two or three.

51 posted on 05/05/2007 5:43:38 AM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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