And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Ver. 16. So that he die.] Though he had no intent to kill, yet because he should have looked better to it, he is a murderer; he smote him purposely and presumptuously, and the man dies of it. King James was wont to say, that if God did leave him to kill a man (though beside his intention), he should think God did not love him.

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