Verse Deuteronomy 25:3. _FORTY STRIPES HE MAY GIVE HIM, AND NOT EXCEED_] According to God's institution a criminal may receive _forty_ stripes; not one more! But is the institution from _above_ or _n...
The Jews to keep within the letter of the law fixed 39 stripes as the maximum (compare the marginal reference.). Forty signifies the full measure of judgment (compare Genesis 7:12; Numbers 14:33); but...
21. VARIOUS LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Corporal punishment (Deuteronomy 25:1)_ 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox (Deuteronomy 25:4) 3. The brother-in-law's marriage (Deu
DEUTERONOMY 25:1. Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilkinson- Birch, _Ancient Egyptians_, i. pp. 305, 308). The p...
FORTY STRIPES. To ensure obedience to this law, tradition made the stripes 39, and gave three strokes with. thong of thirteen cords. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:24. VILE. mean, or lightly esteemed....
Deuteronomy 24:5 to Deuteronomy 25:4. Thirteen Laws of Equity and Humanity Besides the humane temper common to most of them, and a few cue-words, there are no apparent reasons for their being grouped...
_Forty stripes_ By later law the number was fixed at -forty less one" (_Mishna_," Makkoth," Deuteronomy 3:10 ff., cp. 2 Corinthians 11:24, Josephus, IV. _Antt_. viii. 21, 23) they were now inflicted w...
_VER._ 2, 3. _THE JUDGE SHALL CAUSE HIM TO LIE DOWN,_ &C.— To prevent severity in judgment upon persons found guilty of misdemeanors, Moses here not only enjoins the number of stripes to be inflicted,...
LESSON NINETEEN DEUTERONOMY 25:1-16 (16) JUDGING AND PUNISHING MEN IN CONTROVERSY (Deuteronomy 25:1-3) If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and _the judges_ judge them;...
_FORTY STRIPES HE MAY GIVE HIM, AND NOT EXCEED: LEST, IF HE SHOULD EXCEED, AND BEAT HIM ABOVE THESE WITH MANY STRIPES, THEN THY BROTHER SHOULD SEEM VILE UNTO THEE._ Lest, if he should exceed ... then...
ORDINANCES REGARDING THE INFLICTION OF STRIPES, THE BAISING OF SEED TO A BROTHER, MODESTY, AND FAIR DEALING 3. _And_ NOT EXCEED] In order to keep within the limit it was usual to inflict thirty-nine s...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 25 V1 ‘Perhaps two men have an argument and they go to court. The judges declare that one man i...
XXV. Deuteronomy 25:1. HUMANITY IN PUNISHMENTS. (1) THEY SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS, AND CONDEMN THE WICKED. — “I will not justify the wicked” (Exodus 23:7). “He that justifieth the wicked, and he t...
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יַכֶּ֖נּוּ לֹ֣א יֹסִ֑יף פֶּן ־יֹסִ֨יף...
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequate as...
This chapter is a continuation of the two previous ones in giving varied instructions. Punishments were to be righteously administered and were never to be excessive. It is interesting to notice what...
(c) Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. (c) The superstition Jews la...
_Eyes. Hebrew, "depart covered with confusion (or more vile) before thy eyes." Hence the Jews do not consider this chastisement as ignominious. (Calmet)_...
No doubt in all instances, strict examination took place before punishment. The limitation of the number of stripes prevented the effects of rigour. The Jews have a tradition, that while the stripes w...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
FORTY STRIPES HE MAY GIVE HIM, AND NOT EXCEED,.... And that this number might not be exceeded, it is ordered by the Jewish canons that only thirty nine should be given; for it is asked b, "with how m...
Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. Ver. 3. _Should seem vile unto t...
_Forty stripes he may give him_ The law of Moses very wisely limited the number of stripes, lest severe judges should order delinquents to be lashed to death, as was often done among the Romans, than...
1 Stripes must not exceed fortie. 4 The Oxe is not to be musled. 5 Of raising seed vnto a brother. 11 Of the immodest woman. 13 Of vniust weights. 17 The memorie of Amalek is to be blotted out....
OF BODILY PUNISHMENTS...
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed, this precept later resulting in the limit's being placed at thirty-nine, for there was danger of miscounting, and the Jews, especially after the return f...
JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY (vs.1-3) In the law courts the judges must mete out proper justice, yet not to exceed the limits of justice. If one was guilty of serious crime, it was right to have him b...
1-3 Every punishment should be with solemnity, that those who see it may be filled with dread, and be warned not to offend in like manner. And though the criminals must be shamed as well as put to pai...
NOT EXCEED: it seems not superstition, but prudent caution, when the Jews would not exceed thirty-nine stripes, 2 CORINTHIANS 11:24, lest through mistake or forgetfulness or eagerness they should go b...
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 25:3 Forty H705 blows H5221 (H8686) more H3254 (H8686) exceed H3254 (H8686) beat H5221 ...
CHAPTER 25 DOING WHAT IS TRULY RIGHT AND AVOIDING SHAME. This chapter continues with the idea of fairness, and the thought of consideration and doing right and runs throughout, commencing with the req...
CONTENTS: Divers regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Justice and equity will bring down upon us the blessing of God. Those who do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord and misera...
Deuteronomy 25:5. _If brethren dwell together._ Not in the same house, but near each other on the ancient lot of land which the family possessed; for Moses often speaks as though the people were alrea...
CRITICAL NOTES.—CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. _Controv._, dispute arising from inflicted injury. Justify pronounce just, Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15. DEUTERONOMY 25:2. LIE DOWN. “Precisely the same as the Egyp...
EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, LEVIRATE MARRIAGES, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. DEUTERONOMY 25:1 The first and second verses should be read as one se
Now in Chapter twenty-five, he continues these interesting kinds of regulations. If two men have a controversy between themselves, then they come to the judges; and let the judges justify the righteou...
2 Corinthians 11:24; 2 Corinthians 11:25; James 2:2; James 2:3; Job
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 th...