Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. Ver. 3. _Thou shalt prepare thee a way._] A direct, plain, fair highway: such a way must ministers prepare and pave for their people... [ Continue Reading ]
And this [is] the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; Ver. 4. _Whom he hated not in time past._] There is, first, a passion of hatred. This is a kind of averse ness and rising of the heart against a... [ Continue Reading ]
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: Ver. 5. _And live._] So he keep w... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. Ver. 6. _While his heart is hot._] As Nebuchadnezzar's oven - viz., with anger and grief... [ Continue Reading ]
And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; Ver. 8. _And give thee all the land._] From Nile to Euphrates; Gen 15:18 which by reason of their sins he never did. Pray we with Jabez, 1Ch 4:10 "Oh... [ Continue Reading ]
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: Ver. 11. _But if any man hate his neighbour._] As Cain did Abel, as Esau Jacob, as Absalom Amnon; as Dr Story did Queen Elizabeth, whom he cu... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Ver. 12. _And fetch him thence._] From the altar to the halter, from the palace to the gallows. Pro 28:17... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Ver. 14. Thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old, &c.] Erasmus met with an adversary so silly, as to object... [ Continue Reading ]
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Ver. 15. _One witness shall not rise up._] Yet, if this one be a faithful witness, Mαρτυς δε... [ Continue Reading ]
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. Ver. 20. _Shall hear and fear._] Others' woes should be our warnings, others' sufferings our sermons, yea, standing sermons. 1Co 10:5-12 God's house of correction is the school of instruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Ver. 21. _Eye for eye, tooth for tooth._] _See Trapp on "_ Mat 5:38 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]