DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 25 Judges must do justly, DEUTERONOMY 25:1,2. Stripes not to exceed forty, DEUTERONOMY 25:3. The threshing ox not to be muzzled, DEUTERONOMY 25:4. The duty of raising seed unto a brother, DEUTERONOMY 25:5. The punishment of an immodest woman, DEUTERONOMY 25:11,12. A just weight a... [ Continue Reading ]
WORTHY TO BE BEATEN; which the Jews say was the case of all those crimes which the law commands to be punished, without expressing the kind or degree of the punishment. BEFORE HIS FACE; that the punishment may be duly inflicted, without excess or defect, which otherwise might easily happen through t... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT EXCEED: it seems not superstition, but prudent caution, when the Jews would not exceed thirty-nine stripes, 2 CORINTHIANS 11:24, lest through mistake or forgetfulness or eagerness they should go beyond their bounds, which they were commanded to keep, but they were not obliged to go to the utmost... [ Continue Reading ]
As the Gentiles used to do, having divers devices to keep them from eating when they trod out the corn, which they did in those parts and times by oxen, HOSEA 10:11, either immediately by their hoofs, ISAIAH 28:28 MICAH 4:13, or by drawing carts or other instruments over the corn, ISAIAH 25:10, ISAI... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN; strictly so called, as is evident from DEUTERONOMY 25:7 GENESIS 38:8 RUTH 1:13 MATTHEW 22:24,25. Dwell together; either, 1. Strictly, in the same house or family; which is not probable, because the married brother may be presumed to have left his father's house, and set up a family of his... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE NAME OF HIS BROTHER; shall be called and reputed his son. See RUTH 4:17. THAT HIS NAME BE NOT PUT OUT OF ISRAEL; that a family be not lost. So this was a provision that the number of their families might not be diminished.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO RAISE UP UNTO HIS BROTHER A NAME; to revive his brother's name and memory.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAK UNTO HIM, to convince him of the duty, and persuade him to it. IF HE STAND TO IT; if he obstinately refuse it.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOSE HIS SHOE; partly as a sign of his resignation of all his right to the woman, and to her husband's inheritance; for as the shoe was a sign of one's power and right, PSALMS 60:8, PSALMS 108:9; so the parting with the shoe was a token of the alienation of such right, and that he would not, and he... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. His person, _names_ being oft put for _persons_, and his posterity also. So it was a lasting blot.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Partly because of the great mischief she did to him, both to his person and posterity, and partly to deter all women from all immodest and impudent carriages, and to secure that modesty which is indeed the guardian of all the virtues, as immodesty is an inlet to all vices, as the sad experience of t... [ Continue Reading ]
The GREAT, either to buy with, or openly to make show of; the SMALL, for their private use in selling.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Which circumstance greatly aggravates their sin, that they should do thus to a people, who had been long exercised with sore afflictions, to whom pity and help was due by the laws of nature and humanity, and for whose rescue God had in so glorious a manner appeared, which they could not be ignorant... [ Continue Reading ]
SMOTE THE HINDMOST OF THEE; which God permitted, both for the punishment of Israel's sins, and to harden and prepare them for the difficulties of their expedition.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLOT OUT THE REMEMBRANCE OF AMALEK; which was in great measure done afterward. See 1SA 15 27:8 30:1,17 1 CHRONICLES 4:43 ESTHER 9:12,13.... [ Continue Reading ]