Deuteronomy 25:1
Justify — Acquit him from guilt and false accusations, and free him from punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Justify — Acquit him from guilt and false accusations, and free him from punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 punishment. Before his face — That the punishment may be duly inflicted, without excess or defect. And from this no person's rank or quality exempted him, if h... [ Continue Reading ]
Forty stripes — It seems not superstition, but prudent caution, when the Jews would not exceed thirty — nine stripes, lest through mistake or forgetfulness they should go beyond their bounds, which they were commanded to keep. Should seem vile — Should be made contemptible to his brethren, either by... [ Continue Reading ]
He treadeth out the corn — Which they did in those parts, either immediately by their hoofs on by drawing carts or other instruments over the corn. Hereby God taught them humanity, even to their beasts that served them, and much more to their servants or other men who laboured for them, especially t... [ Continue Reading ]
Together — In the same town, or at least country. For if the next brother had removed his habitation into remote parts, on were carried thither into captivity, then the wife of the dead had her liberty to marry the next kinsman that lived in the same place with her. One — Any of them, for the words... [ Continue Reading ]
That his name be not put out — That a family be not lost. So this was a provision that the number of their families might not be diminished.... [ Continue Reading ]
Loose his shoe — 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 as a note of infamy, to signify... [ Continue Reading ]
His name — That is, his person, and his posterity also. So it was a lasting blot.... [ Continue Reading ]
A great and a small — The great to buy with, the small for selling.... [ Continue Reading ]
Out of Egypt — 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 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 ign... [ Continue Reading ]