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Preparation for the Gospel
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903
Book 12, 41. Of Slaying a Thief
AGAIN when Moses says: ‘But if the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he die, it is not murder,’1 Plato agrees in this also, saying:
[PLATO]2 ‘If a man catch a thief coming into his house by night to steal his goods, and slay him, let him be guiltless: also if he kill a footpad in self-defence, let him be guiltless.’
Notes
- c 1 Exod. xxii. 2
- c 4 Plato, Laws, 874 B