Some uncleanness — Some hateful thing, some distemper of body or quality of mind not observed before marriage: or some light carriage, as this phrase commonly signifies, but not amounting to adultery. Let him write — This is not a command as some of the Jews understood it, nor an allowance and appro... [ Continue Reading ]
May not — This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in putting her away without sufficient cause, which by this offer he now acknowledgeth. Defiled — Not absolutely, as if her second marriage were a sin, but with respect to her first husband, to whom she is as a defiled or unclean woman, th... [ Continue Reading ]
Business — Any publick office or employment, which may cause an absence from or neglect of his wife. One year — That their affections may be firmly settled, so as there may be no occasions for the divorces last mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mill — stone — Used in their hand — mills. Under this, he understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing by those things alone he can be enabled both to subsist and to pay his debts. Life — His livelihood,... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not go in — To prevent both the poor man's reproach by having his wants exposed, and the creditor's greediness which might be occasioned by the sight of something which he desired, and the debtor could not spare.... [ Continue Reading ]
The pledge — He shall chuse what pledge he pleases, provided it be sufficient for the purpose.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not sleep — But restore it before night, which intimates that he should take no such thing for pledge, without which a man cannot sleep.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bless thee — Bring down the blessing of God upon thee by his prayers: for though his prayers, if he be not a good man, shall not avail for his own behalf, yet they shall avail for thy benefit. It shall be right — Esteemed and accepted by God as a work of righteousness, or mercy.... [ Continue Reading ]
At this day — At the time appointed, weekly or daily.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not put to death — If the one be free from the guilt of the others sin, except in those cases where the sovereign Lord of life and death, before whom none is innocent, hath commanded it, as Deuteronomy 13:1; Joshua 7:24. For though God do visit the father's sins upon the children, Exodus 20:5, yet h... [ Continue Reading ]
Raiment — Not such as she hath daily and necessary use of, as being poor. But this concerns not rich persons, nor superfluous raiment.... [ Continue Reading ]