Will you please harmonize Deut. 13:6-10 with the Sermon on the Mount, or give me some suggestions which will help me, especially the 9th verse? C. C. First, it is well to remember that Israel was a nation, a separated nation, a nation surrounded by idolatrous nations of every sort. Secondly, the head of that nation was God; it was a Theocracy. The laws of that nation came direct from Him. He who was a member of that nation and yet enticed others to serve other gods, was a traitor to God, the King, and to the people of the nation. He would be an agency for destroying souls. Consequently it was but just that he should be slain; and he who was loyal to God and loyal to the souls of his brethren, certainly would not withhold the evidence of the traitors who were among them. There is a sort of loyal disloyalty to the world at the present time that is contrary to this. It is more often manifest, perhaps, in schools than anywhere else. Here will be a class of young men, for instance. One of their number will plot things that do a great deal of damage and cause trouble. His fellows will know of it. Not one of them would do any such thing as that. They could speak a word which would prevent it; but their "class loyalty," as they would term it, would not permit them to inform upon the one who is doing the wrong. They ought to have an honor and a loyalty that are above any such association. They ought to have sufficient to say to that one, "You must not do that; and if you do do that, my honor and my relationship to this school [or whatever it might be] demand that I should inform those who are in charge of it, in order that the thing you are thinking of doing may be prevented." So every one of the children of Israel ought to have been loyal to God, so loyal to God that under His directions they would be willing to punish the one who was a traitor to His government, and who, by that treachery, would be the means of destroying souls. The Sermon on the Mount is given to individuals in the Christian dispensation, individuals who are not under a Theocracy, who have no control over the consciences of their fellows, or of their relationship to God. Bearing these principles and conditions in mind, there is no contradiction in terms or in principles.