The Law, System Not Disorder

We were engaged in making plain that the Mosaic system of legislation is not the fruitage of a blind process of evolution, directed by accident and chance, but a systematic whole, "an intended adjustment of part to part, and of each part to the whole, a gradual process and advance from the more fundamental and simple to the more complex and specified detail." We may now pass on to the second half of the legal material found in chapters twenty to thirty one inclusive of the book of Exodus. The...