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Rh with the people of the earth, at the giving of the Law in writing on Mount Sinai? May we say the proportion was one to a hundred, or even a thousand or ten thousand?

Then, what does God say to the Israelites? "Ye are not to do as the nations do, anything contrary to My moral law.

What does He say to Christians now? The very same.

Therefore, the Church does keep intact the Levitical code, being God's moral law, and commands all to obey it, as in this case which we have before us.

Sympathy is brought to bear frequently. People argue that the wife's own sister will surely take the most care of her sister's children. Now, so will any good second wife, and such sympathy is insufferable, in that, if God's law be broken by it, no amount of sympathy can be allowed.

As a judge refuses sympathy to be created in a law court, so must we.

But, it may be argued, the majority, either ignorantly or wilfully, are in favour of such a marriage being made legal by the law of the land, which is an impossible thing to be done in the sight of one who fears God.

Are we not told in God's Word over and over again that the world is at enmity with God? All history, too, shows that in any case contrary to nature, or, that is, God's laws, the mass are