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 tateuch should decide the question between him and the Jews, which they declined; but Jallalo'ddin records an instance, where two persons of the Jewish religion having committed adultery, and their punishment being referred to Mohammed, he gave sentence that they should be stoned, according to the law of Moses: the Jews refused, alledging that there was no such command; but, on Mohammed's appealing to the book, the said law was found, and the sentence executed accordingly.

This law is mentioned in the New Testament, though the authenticity of the passage has been questioned: it is not discoverable in the Hebrew or Samaritan Pentateuch, or in the Septuagint; only a general direction is given that such offenders should be put to death. But if this single passage be meant to invalidate the Pentateuch, the stress laid upon it is far more than can be fairly sup-