I Sam. xiv. 24; xviii. 25; xxv. 31; 2 Sam. iv. 8; Judg. v. 2:  I Sam. xxv. 26-33. (2.) From the express statute, Lev. xxiv. 17; “He that killeth ANY man shall surely be put to death.”  Also Num. xxxv. 30, 31:  “Whoso killeth ANY person, the murderer shall be put to death.  Moreover, ye shall take NO SATISFACTION for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.” (3.) The Targum of Jonathan gives the verse thus, “Death by the sword shall surely be adjudged.”  The Targum of Jerusalem.  “Vengeance shall be taken for him to the uttermost.”  Jarchi, the same.  The Samaritan version:  “He shall die the death,” Again the clause “for he is his money,” is quoted to prove that the servant is his master’s property, and therefore, if he died, the master was not to be punished.  The assumption is, that the phrase, “HE IS HIS MONEY.” proves not only that the servant is worth money to the master, but that he is an article of property.  If the advocates of slavery insist upon taking the principle of interpretation into the Bible, and turning it loose, let them stand and draw in self-defence.  If they endorse for it at one point, they must stand sponsors all around the circle.  It will be too late to cry for quarter when its stroke clears the table, and tilts them among the sweepings beneath.  The Bible abounds with such expressions as the following:  “This (bread) is my body;” “this (wine) is my blood;” “all they (the Israelites) are brass and tin;” “this (water) is the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives;” “the Lord God is a sun and a shield;” “God is love;” “the seven good ears are seven years, and the seven good kine are seven years;” “the tree of the field is man’s life;” “God is a consuming fire;” “he is his money,” &c.  A passion for the exact literalities of the Bible is so amiable, it were hard not to gratify it in this case.  The words in the original are (Kaspo-hu,) “his silver is he.”  The objector’s principle of interpretation is a philosopher’s stone!  Its miracle touch transmutes five feet eight inches of flesh and bones into solid silver! Quite a permanent servant, if not so nimble with all—­reasoning against “forever,” is forestalled henceforth, and, Deut. xxiii. 15, utterly outwitted.  The obvious meaning of the phrase, “He is his money,” is, he is worth money to his master, and since, if the master had killed him, it would have taken money out of his pocket, the pecuniary loss, the kind of instrument used, and the fact of his living some time after the injury, (if the master meant to kill, he would be likely to do it while about it,) all together make a strong case of presumptive evidence clearing the master of intent to kill.  But let us look at the objector’s inferences.  One is, that as the master might dispose of his property