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Purpose of Penalty: Public Good, Not Correction

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 2.

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Purpose of Penalty: Public Good, Not Correction

The murderer is not hung for his benefit, to correct him, i. e., to set him right. He is punished—has the penalty executed upon him—for the public good, not to make him a better man. It is a great mistake to suppose that penalty, in any “stage,” is properly called chastisement. Penalty is a purely legal word, and has not an element of grace in it.—Sel.