27:23), “laid his hands upon him and gave him his charge,” designing and rendering certain who it was they were to obey in war. And in the consecration of the Levites ( Numb. 8:10), God commanded that “the children of Israel should put their hands upon the Levites.” And in the condemnation of him that had blasphemed the Lord ( Levit. 24:14), God commanded that “all that heard him should lay their hands on his head, and that all the congregation should stone him.” And why should they only that heard him lay their hands upon him, and not rather a priest, Levite, or other minister of justice, but that none else were able to design and to demonstrate to the eyes of the congregation who it was that had blasphemed and ought to die? And to design a man or any other thing by the hand to the eye, is less subject to mistake than when it is done to the ear by a name.