of
those Laws interdicting such a marriage, does he so vehemently,
blame them? Such a marriage is not forbidden in the Gospel: it was
forbidden to them no where in the Scriptures but in the Mosaic
Code. Therefore, Paul must have founded his judgment against the
criminal upon the dictum of that law in such cases. Paul puts the
man under a curse; and it is the Mosaic Law which says, Deut. 27,
"Cursed is he who lieth with his father's wife." It seems,
therefore, that Jesus did not deliver his followers from "the curse
of the law," as Paul taught them it did in Gal. iii. 13.

1 Cor. ch. x.:--"And let us not pollute ourselves with fornication,
as some of them were polluted, and fell in one day to the number
of twenty-three thousand." Here is a blunder, for it is written "
twenty-four thousand."--Num. 25.

Gal. iii., 13, Paul says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of
the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, cursed is every
one that hangeth on a tree." What he says of the Christ, or the
Messiah redeeming from the curses written in the law, that by no
means agrees with truth; for no Jew can be freed from the curses of
the law, but by repenting of his sins, and becoming obedient to it.
And in alledging the words "cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree," from Deut. xxi., he, as usual, applies them irrelevantly.

Paul says, Gal. iii, 10:--"For as many as are of the works of the
law, are under the curse; for it is written, Deut. xxvii. 26, ' Cursed
is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of
the law to do them.'" And he interprets this to mean that all
mankind, Jews and Gentile, are liable to damnation, (except those
who are saved by faith) because no man ever did continue in all
things written in the law. Now, in the first place I would observe,
that Paul has inserted the word "all" in the passage he quotes from
Deuteronomy, (in the original of which it is not) in order to make it
support his system; for the whole of his argument is built upon this
one surreptitiously inserted word. 2. The words according to the
original are simply these:--"Cursed is he that continueth not the
words of this law to do them;" i. e.,--He who disobeys, or neglects
to fulfil the commands of the law, shall be under the curse
denounced upon the disobedient. But who would conclude from
this that repentance would not remove the curse? Does not God
expressly declare in the xxx. ch. of Deut., that if th