The Leiden Synopsis on the political law of Moses

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The political law is what determines the duties of the governing officials and the subjects of the Israelite nation by means of certain civil regulations. It lends authority to them through the corporal punishment of those who rebel, in keeping with the norm of the Decalogue’s two tables, and in particular the second one.

The foremost use of this political law is that by the precise keeping of the precepts of the moral and ceremonial laws, justice might thrive in conjunction with piety especially among the Jews. Even to the present day governing officials and their subjects one and all are obliged to obey those precepts in this political law that belong to the universal law; however, the ones that belong to the particular Jewish [political] law have become obsolete along with the Mosaic system of government.

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