The House of Chiefs, an advisory body, thought the strokes should be across the back, but saw its motion to that effect turned down by the Government, which takes the view that the proper place for punishing disobedient boys is their bottoms. On a more serious note the 1998 report...
As Irenaeus expresses it, "Man, disobedient to God, was cast off from immortality." [±±] And so God said Himself, when to fallen Adam He declared: "Dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return." [**] Sinful man is not by nature immortal but mortal. He has lowered himself to...
For disobedient children He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.Exodus 21:15 He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.Exodus 21:17 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he ...