(August 2, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Astonished Wrote: Wasn't that part about not being hurt by any deadly thing not even in the bible or something? Just an interpretation of something that didn't really mean it, or from a supplementary writing?
It's in the King James Version (among others) so they are stuck with it.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.