The ideas of the inquisition of heretics and of the informer, which the West has used in its retrogressive periods and repudiated in its enlightened ones, also find their original source (unless any can locate an earlier one) in Deuteronomy. Lest any such heretic should call in question the Law of destruction, summarized in the preceding paragraphs, Deuteronomy next provides that ―if there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams … (he) shall be put to death‖; the crucifixion of Jesus (and the deaths of numerous expostulants against literal Judaism) fall under this ―statute.‖
