 Under his presidency, too, a review of undecided points of law was undertaken.Rabbinic homiletics owes to Eleazar the introduction of the rule called "semuchin" (סמוכין = "contiguous"), by which one Scriptural passage is explained or supplemented by another immediately preceding or succeeding it.Thus, Eleazar declares that the slanderer and the listener and the false witness deserve to be thrown to the dogs.