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"cast the first stone" -- This was actually a criticism that the law required the accusers to bring the woman AND the man and the eyewitnesses, and the eyewitne
by ahazred8ta 2y ago
"cast the first stone" -- This was actually a criticism that the law required the accusers to bring the woman AND the man and the eyewitnesses, and the eyewitnesses must cast the first stone. Their absence invalidated the trial.
- graemep 2y agoThe full phrase is "let he who is without sin cast the first stone". I do not know how that fits with eyewitnesses. How often would there be eyewitnesses to adultery anyway?
- ahazred8ta 2y agoDeuteronomy: Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.