“For there was a command under the law that cities of refuge should be appointed, in order that they who were sought after to be put to death might at least have some means of saving themselves. And when he who spoke to Moses, the Word of the Father, appeared in the end of the world, he also gave this commandment, sayi…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT 11
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13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
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11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
— Exodus 21:13 —
14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.