God, present the divine law of Love, which blesses even those that curse it."

First of all, the rabbis and priests did not teach the Mosaic Law which said, "An eye for an eye, etc." The Jewish Law of punishment was gradually developed in the Second Commonwealth by the Synhedrion or Sanhedrion -- the Great Jewish Assemblage which laid down all the laws for the Jews between the Babylonian exile and the Fall of the Second Temple in 70, A. D. The Jewish authorities of that epoch naturally believed in and enforced the law against crime, just as all civilized nations do to-day. Capital punishment still exists in almost all modern nations, and each crime is adequately punished. Without proper enforcement of the law, society could not exist.

Now, let me explain the Mosaic law, "An eye for an eye, etc." This statement is found in Exodus, Chapter 21:24. In this sentence, Moses laid down the principle still known in law as "Lex Talionis" or "The Law of Retaliation." Every Bible student knows this. Moreover, this law was never meant nor taken literally by Jewish people. It would be a physical impossibility to exact such ridiculous punishment, as taking an eye from a man who had destroyed the eye of another. Jesus, in the New Testament is credited with some very cruel statements. For example, take the following passage from Matthew, Chapter 10, verses 34, 36: "Think not that I came to send peace on the earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword. I came to set a man against his father, the daughter against