Adultery: A Capital Crime

The laws of Moses, therefore, very properly made adultery a capital crime; nor does our Saviour, in the incident of the woman taken in adultery, repeal that statute, or disallow its justice. The legislation of modern, nominally Christian nations, is drawn rather from the grossness of Pagan sources than from Bible principles. The common law of England, and the statutes and usages which our Commonwealth has drawn thence, present a most inconsistent state. There is no statute whatever for punishing adultery as a crime!

Robert L. Dabney, Systematic Theology
(The Banner of Truth Trust), p. 407–408.

Recommended:

Vincent Cheung, The Sermon on the Mount

John Murray, The Principles of Conduct