MOSAIC ORIGIN OF THE PENTATEUCH. 



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universally. But the verb from which it is derived means to 

 jiingt or cast, as a command thrown out by authority. There are 

 very few passages in the Old Testament where it means anything 

 but a law, and it generally means the Law of Moses. It very seldom 

 means custom, and it is not certain whether it ever does mean 

 teaching." On page 42, I could say a good deal about the occur- 

 rence of naghar for nagharah in Gen. xxxiv, and generally of the 

 Wellhausen division of that chapter into " sources." But I must 

 refrain. I will only remark that it is an example of the resolution 

 of the German critic not to see what he does not want to see. I 

 will only add (see page 46), that the idea of meekness being a " serious 

 difficulty " in the way of the genuineness of the Pentateuch involves 

 a oToss anachronism. 



