{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tsa/tsa36.htm","path":"jud/tsa/tsa36.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tsa/tsa36.htm","text":"Tractate Sanhedrin, Herbert Danby tr. [1919]\nM.IX. 6. If any one steal a sacred vessel, or curse by Kosem, 2 or marry a heathen woman, 3 zealous people may attack them. If a priest minister in an unclean condition, 4 his brother priests do not bring him to the court, but the young attendant priests take him outside the courtyard and break open his brain with clubs. If a stranger serve in\nM.the Temple, R. Akiba says he is to be strangled, but the majority hold that he is to be left in the hands of Heaven. 1\n119:2 Meaning uncertain. The majority of Jewish commentators treat as the name of an idol. A possible interpretation is, that it is an abbreviation of some transliterated unorthodox divine name, such as, for example, \u03ba\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2, or a disguised form of the Tetragrammaton. The criminal is then the blasphemer who utters the name \"under a pseudonym\" (Sanh. VII. 5). Although he cannot be legally stoned, he may become the object of irregular justice.\n119:3 On the ground of Numb. 25. 6-15.\n119:4 Legally, (Makkoth III. 2), he can only be punished by scourging.\n120:1 See Josephus, Bell. VI. ll. 4; V. v. 2; Ant. XV. xi. 5; from which it is to be gathered that the Romans recognized that the Jews could put intruders to death. The well-known Temple barrier inscription discovered in 1871 reads: \"No man of another nation to enter within the fence and enclosure round the Temple; and whoever is caught will have himself to blame that his death follows.\" Cf. J. Armitage Robinson, St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, p. 160.","title":"Tractate Sanhedrin: IV. Offenders Liable to Capital Punishment: Irregular Justice","type":"page"}