Deuteronomy 22:1
Thy brother's — Any man's. Thou shalt not hide thyself — Dissemble or pretend that thou dost not see them; or pass them by as if thou hadst not seen them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy brother's — Any man's. Thou shalt not hide thyself — Dissemble or pretend that thou dost not see them; or pass them by as if thou hadst not seen them.... [ Continue Reading ]
To thine own house — To be used like thine own cattle.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hide thyself — Dissemble that thou hast found it. Or, hide it, that is, conceal the thing lost.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall not wear — Namely, ordinarily or unnecessarily, for in some cases this may be lawful, as to make an escape for one's life. Now this is forbidden, both for decency sake, that men might not confound those sexes which God hath distinguished, that all appearance of evil might be avoided, such chan... [ Continue Reading ]
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 mens sake, to refrain their greediness, that, they should not monopolize all to themselves, but leave the hopes of a futur... [ Continue Reading ]
A battlement — A fence or breastwork, because the roofs of their houses were made flat, that men might walk on them. Blood — The guilt of blood, by a man's fall from the top of thy house, thro' thy neglect of this necessary provision. The Jew's say, that by the equity of this law, they are obliged,... [ Continue Reading ]
Divers seeds — Either 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, With any kind of seed differing from that of the vine, which would produce either herbs, or... [ Continue Reading ]
An ox and an ass — 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fringes — Or laces, or strings, partly to bring the commands of God to their remembrance, as it is expressed, Numbers 15:38, and partly is a public profession of their nation and religion, whereby they might be distinguished from strangers, that so they might be more circumspect to behave as became... [ Continue Reading ]
If any man take a wife — And afterward falsely accuse her — What the meaning of that evidence is, by which the accusation was proved false, the learned are not agreed. Nor is it necessary for us to know: they for whom this law was intended, undoubtedly understood it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The father — Because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, as such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been ascribed to his evil education.... [ Continue Reading ]
She cried not — And therefore is justly presumed to have consented to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Even so — 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 ]
Fifty shekels — Besides the dowry, as Philo, the learned Jew notes, which is here omitted, because that was customary, it being sufficient here to mention what was peculiar to this case. His wife — If her father consented to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take — To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only.... [ Continue Reading ]