DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 22 Laws about stray cattle, DEUTERONOMY 22:1. About thy neighbor's ox fallen in the way, DEUTERONOMY 22:4. Woman's wearing of apparel distinct from man s, DEUTERONOMY 22:5. Of birds caught, DEUTERONOMY 22:6,7. Of battlements for houses, DEUTERONOMY 22:8. Of divers seeds sown, DEU... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THY BROTHER BE NOT NIGH UNTO THEE, which may make the duty more troublesome or chargeable. IF THOU KNOW HIM NOT; which implies, that if they did know the owner, they should restore it to him. THOU SHALT BRING IT UNTO THINE OWN HOUSE, to be used like thine own cattle. Thou shalt restore it to him... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Dissemble that thou hast found it. Or, _hide it_, i.e. conceal the thing lost.... [ Continue Reading ]
HELP HIM, i.e. thy brother, the owner. Compare EXODUS 13:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
This shall not be done ordinarily or unnecessarily, for in some cases it may be lawful, as to make an escape for one's life. Now this is forbidden, partly for decency sake, that men might not confound, nor seem to confound, those sexes which God hath distinguished, that all appearance of evil might... [ Continue Reading ]
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LET THE DAM GO; partly for the bird's sake, which suffered enough by the loss of its young; for God would not have cruelty exercised towards the brute creatures; and partly for men's sake, to restrain their greediness and covetousness, that they should not monopolize all to themselves, but might lea... [ Continue Reading ]
A BATTLEMENT, i.e. a fence or breastwork, because the roofs of their houses were made flat or plain, that men might walk on them. See JUDGES 16:27 1 SAMUEL 9:25 2 SAMUEL 11:2 NEHEMIAH 8:16 MATTHEW 10:27. BLOOD, i.e. the guilt of blood, by a man's fall from the top of thy house, through thy neglect o... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH DIVERS SEEDS; either, 1. With divers kinds of seed mixed and sowed together between the rows of vines in thy vineyard; which was forbidden to be done in the field, LEVITICUS 19:19, and here in the vineyard. Or, 2. With any kind of seed differing from that of the vine, which would produce eithe... [ Continue Reading ]
Either, 1. Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean; whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things, 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14. Or, 2. Because of their unequal strength, whereby the weaker, the ass, would be oppressed and overwrought. Or,... [ Continue Reading ]
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FRINGES, or _laces_, or _strings_; partly to bring the commands of God to their remembrance, as it is expressed, NUMBERS 15:38; and partly as a public profession of their nation and religion, whereby they might be discerned and distinguished from strangers, that so they might be more circumspect to... [ Continue Reading ]
GO IN UNTO HER, i.e. hath had carnal knowledge of her.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF SPEECH, Heb. _of words_, i.e. of discourses or defamations.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. The linen cloth or sheet, as is expressed, DEUTERONOMY 22:17, which in the first congress was infected with blood, as is natural and usual. But because this is not now constant, the enemies of Scripture take occasion to quarrel with this law, as unreasonable and unjust, and such as might oppres... [ Continue Reading ]
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Either, 1. By the following mulct. Or, 2. By severe reproofs, which that word oft signifies. Or, 3. By stripes, as is expressed, DEUTERONOMY 25:2,3. Which is not strange, considering how precious a thing one's good name is, of which he endeavoured to deprive his wife.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE FATHER OF THE DAMSEL; because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, because such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been ascribed to his evil education. HE MAY NOT PUT HER AWAY ALL HIS DAYS; which seems to have been his design in this false accusation, and therefore that... [ Continue Reading ]
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QUEST. Why should she die when her crime was only fornication, which was not punished in a woman with death, EXODUS 22:16,17 ? ANSW. Because there was not only fornication in this case, as EXO 22, but this was accompanied with deep dissimulation and injury to her husband in the false profession of v... [ Continue Reading ]
IF A MAN BE FOUND; if he be convicted of this fault, though not taken in the very act.... [ Continue Reading ]
By this betrothing she had actually engaged herself to another man, and was in some sort his with, and therefore is sometimes so called, as GENESIS 29:21 MATTHEW 1:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE SHE CRIED NOT; and therefore is justly presumed to have consented to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MAN FORCE HER; which was to be examined and determined by the consideration of all the circumstances.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not an act of choice, but of force and constraint.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAMSEL CRIED; which is in that case to be presumed; charity obliging us to believe the best till the contrary be manifest.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. An unmarried man, as appears, 1. From his obligation to marry the person he abused, which it is not probable would have been imposed upon him, had he been married. 2. Because if the man had been married, this had been adultery, and so had been punished with death. LAY HOLD ON HER; which notes... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTY SHEKELS OF SILVER, besides the dowry, as Philo the learned Jew notes, which is here omitted, because that was common and customary, and because it might easily be gathered out of EXODUS 22:16, it being sufficient here to mention what was peculiar to this case. SHE SHALL BE HIS WIFE, to wit, if... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL NOT TAKE TO WIFE. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only. HIS FATHER'S WIFE; his mother-in-law. See LEVITICUS 18:8, LEVITICUS 20:11 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1. HIS FATHER'S SKIRT, i.e. the skirt of the mother's garment, i.e. the nakedness, which is here called _his fathe... [ Continue Reading ]