SCRIPTURE IN COURT
LITIGATION DISAPPROVED ST. PAUL’S INJUNCTION. In a well-known passage in liis first letter to the Church at Corinth the Apostle Paul rebukes his converts for their readiness to go to law against one another before a secular court. Appropriate reference was made to this passage by Mr E. M'Veagh in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Monday, when he was appearing for officials of a religious organisation from whom their executive was trying to obtain possession of papers and other property. Mr M'Veagh said he had shown to Mr Goldstine,.counsel appearing on the other side, this passage, in which St. Paul proclaimed the undesirability of persons, especially of those associated with each other in religion, ventilating their grievances in the law courts. Mr Justice Callan: St. Paul to the Corinthians, if I might venture to say so, might be read with equal propriety to the present appellants and to the present respondent. Mr Goldstine: I was rather surprised I had not seen the passage before until Mr M'Veagh was able to show it was in the New Testament.
Mr Justice Callan: The inculcation of forbearance is more marked in the new than in the older Book.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22708, 22 October 1935, Page 7
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