Bible Dictionary: Punishment: Death Penalty for Incest

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Leviticus 20:11,12,14
And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
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Whether the Judicial Precepts were Suitably Framed as to the ...
... The Old Law inflicted the death penalty for the ... irreverence towards one's parents,
adultery and incest. ... other things it inflicted punishment by indemnification ...
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A virgin at Antioch, Having Refused to Sacrifice to Idols...
... that the maiden ran to the place of punishment, and that ... And if you deprive me of
death, you will not have ... From you they can exact no other penalty, but her ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter iv a virgin at.htm

The Octavius of Minucius Felix
... Man from Nothing, Can Raise Him Up from Death into Life. ... But Unrighteous Men Shall
Be Visited with Eternal Punishment. ... Bodily Evils is Not as a Penalty, But as ...
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And So, Having Made These Remarks as it were by Way of Preface...
... to be wicked, senseless, worthy of punishment, deserving of ... up, and doomed himself
to death by starvation ... from the statutes, and the capital penalty turned into ...
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The First Apology of Justin, the Martyr
... though we know that death is the penalty for this ... we are not troubled by being put
to death, since we ... and that everyone goes to eternal punishment or salvation ...
/.../richardson/early christian fathers/the first apology of justin.htm

Epistle i. To Donatus.
... strokes inflicted are hidden, but the penalty is manifest ... muscle, that the wretch
fattened for punishment may die ... are adorned for a voluntary death; wretched men ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/cyprian/the epistles of cyprian/epistle i to donatus.htm

The Fourth Book
... our misdoings are concerned, we deserve the penalty of death ... race is rushing headlong
into eternal punishment by the ... as the apostle says, by his death wished to ...
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If, Again, it is Certain that we are the Most Wicked of Men...
... province, having condemned some Christians to death, and driven ... who even now does
not deserve punishment, I suppose ... should be given over to the penalty which is ...
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Letter ccxvii. To Amphilochius, the Canons.
... without making any distinction that one penalty is assigned ... having confessed, shall
be under punishment for the ... sacrament in the hour of death, through faith ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter ccxvii to amphilochius the.htm

Chapter xxxviii
... been informed, the reason for the death of the ... that Judah designed an especially
rigorous punishment for her. ... The Mosaic law fixed the penalty of burning only ...
/.../leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxxviii.htm