Suzanna and the Elders (2021) 图画 由 Edwin Loftus

Suzanna and the Elders is part of the Apocryphal Christian religious tradition. The virtuous Suzanna bathes each evening in her walled garden. Associates of her husband, two village Elders, know this and contrive to hide in the garden to see her naked. Succeeding in this, they attempt to coerce her into having sex with them, or they will publicly denounce her as an adulteress. She refuses and they accuse her, using their knowledge of the intimate areas of her body as evidence. The plan goes awry and these perverse Elders are condemned instead of Suzanna.
This is one of the most important fables in Western Civilization as an example of the evil and danger of tolerating the making of false accusations and one of the foundations of the concept of Justice. In Hammurabi's Codex it calls for the perjurer to receive the same punishment the accused might have. In the founding Laws of the Roman Republic it called for the perjurer to be cast off of the Tarpean Cliffs. In the Ten Commandments it is commandment nine. We cannot have a System of Justice, if false accusation is not punished, yet that is the case in most places today.

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