Israel and Humanity - Prohibited unions
§ 3.
ASSOCIATIONS PROHIBITED.
What unions were prohibited by law Noachide? There are two incest as the law of Moses condemned and for which the doctors have talked about defenses made to Noachides. If the shocking thing that we seem, we must not forget the testimony of history and believe that humanity has always and everywhere been unanimous in prohibiting certain marriages. Montesquieu has said about this issue all that we could know of his time and modern studies on different breeds in all stages of civilization have only confirmed more than if the decrease between good and moral evil is everywhere, how to design one and the other, however, differs considerably from one nation to another. Thus is demonstrated the need for external teaching on natural data of human consciousness, well come bring moral edifice by determining exactly what can be silent and what to avoid.
We limit ourselves to recall that among the Tartars a father could marry his own daughter. "Attila," said Priscus Exa married his daughter, marriage licenses by the law of the Scythians. As unions between brothers and sisters, nothing is more common in antiquity. "Primitive people, writes Houzeau, for these marriages do not feel the same horror that modern civilized peoples. Unlike the Inca princes marry their sister, to perpetuate the royal [1] ". The language, the faithful mirror of the old customs has kept track of such marriages, as well as Hebrew is sometimes said to sister wife [2]. The rabbis have interpreted the word bath , daughter of the second chapter of the book of Esther, in the sense of woman [3] and perhaps because of this synonymy [4] that the Decalogue does not speak of women, but only the daughter, the last word for every woman in this case subject.
So if there are unions defended the Israelites and allowed to Noachide, it means the text of the Talmud according to which the subject would be nice, in marriage, all the prohibitions imposed on Hebrews [5]. In our opinion, this is only if the Noachide was guilty, the prejudice of a Jew, a crime punishable by law. Indeed, the Talmud speaks on this occasion the bride of an Israelite ( meorasa ), that is to say, of a prior commitment to marriage that Noachism not known. If a Naochide had traded with a woman in these conditions, it should be judged according to Jewish law for all that concerns the court's warning, witness and the nature of the sentence. If, however, it was adultery committed by a nice Jewish Noachide with a woman married to a Jew, as Noachism itself sanctions the sanctity of marriage and condemns the violation is of According to this law that the Jewish judges have to judge the guilty. Maimonides [6], commenting on these provisions of the Code yeshiva, said that in the latter case the fault would be similar to the com-Noachide would the wife of a goy , its like, and thus the guilty should be punished by the sword. Remarkable words, because we can not imagine or more logical than, or a more impartial assessment of the relative positions of the parties to a legal perspective. It involved a very complex set of reports, since was in the presence of an alien having his personal status and, for him, continued to be authoritative in the State of Israel. The act committed against the person of a Jew and in defiance of the law of the latter could he be punished? And this punishment that simple fairness requires, the judges should they take the forms and procedure for the proper law of the culprit, despite their greater severity? Although the duty to observe the laws of the country and recognize the hospitality received was sufficient to arm the arm of the law against foreigners who dared to infringe, but the moment that Jewish law came into play to save the honor of Israel against the criminal abroad, it was [7] right that it benefited from it and its lenient provisions for guardianship of the accused and that is what the rabbinic tradition has not hesitated to punish.
Regardless of any union contracted in violation of the rights of marriage, the law still prohibits Noachide union with the half sister, stepmother and mother, even after his father's death, the woman she had been seduced by latter. In addition, crimes against nature are also forbidden to Noachides. Facing the huge depravity that sullied the whole pagan world, is certainly a wonderful sight as that which is offered by this small nation standing proudly in his moral superiority and setting with serene impartiality Noachism this, true law Catholic requiring all men without distinction, and they can not break without breaking down miserably.
