מי יורש קנייני אלוה ל״גWho is the Heir of Divine Things 33
א׳
1[161] Moses too above all others shews himself a eulogist of equality; first by always and everywhere lauding justice too whose special property it is, as the name itself seems to shew, to divide into two equal parts things material and immaterial; secondly by censuring injustice, the creator of inequality in its most hateful form.
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2[162] Inequality is the mother of the twins, foreign war and civil war, just as its opposite, equality, is the mother of peace. Moses presents most clearly his glorification of justice and his censure of injustice, when he says “ye shall do nothing unjust in judgement, in measures, in weights, in balances; your balances shall be just, your weights just and your measures just and your quart just” (Lev. 19:35, 36) and in Deuteronomy, “There shall not be in thy bag divers weights, great and small: there shall not be in thy house divers measures, great and small. A true and a just weight thou shalt have, that thy days may be long in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee in inheritance, because every one who doeth these things is an abomination to the Lord, every one who doeth injustice (Deut. 25:13–16).
ג׳
3[163] So then the God who loves justice hates and abominates injustice, the source of faction and evil.
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4As for equality, the nurse of justice, where does the Lawgiver fail to shew his approval? We find it first in the story of the creation of the whole heaven. “God separated,” he says, “between the light and between the darkness, and God called the light day and the darkness night” (Gen. 1:4, 5).
ה׳
5[164] For equality gave day and night, light and darkness, their place among the things which are. Equality too divided the human being into man and woman, two sections unequal indeed in strength, but quite equal as regards what was nature’s urgent purpose, the reproduction of themselves in a third person. “God made man,” he says, “made him after the image of God. Male and female He made”—not now “him” but “them” (Gen. 1:27). He concludes with the plural, thus connecting with the genus mankind the species which had been divided, as I said, by equality.
