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This is the only mutilation prescribed by the Law of Moses, unless we
except the retaliation prescribed as a punishment for the infliction
on another of bodily injuries Leviticus 24:19. The act in que...
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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
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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...
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Of Reckless Assault
The woman who, even to help her husband, grasps the secrets of
another Israelite wrestling with him shall have her hand cut off.
Peculiar to D, and in the Sg. address with _brothe...
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(19) PROTECTION FROM ANOTHER'S WIFE (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)
11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that
smitet...
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_WHEN MEN STRIVE TOGETHER ONE WITH ANOTHER AND THE WIFE OF THE ONE
DRAWETH NEAR FOR TO DELIVER HER_ _ WHEN MEN STRIVE TOGETHER ONE WITH
ANOTHER, AND THE WIFE OF THE ONE DRAWETH NEAR FOR TO DELIVER HER...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 25:5. LEVIRATE MARRIAGES.
(5) IF BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER. — This law is made the subject of a
whole treatise in the Talmud, called _Yebâmôth._ The object of the
law was held to be attained...
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וְ קַצֹּתָ֖ה אֶת ־כַּפָּ֑הּ לֹ֥א
תָחֹ֖וס עֵינ
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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...
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In her regard: words supplied also by the Septuagint conformably to
the context. (Calmet) --- The indecency and impudence of the woman,
left her no excuse; (Haydock) though the Rabbins falsely maintai...
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For the honor of women, we should hope this precept was seldom
violated, or the punishment made necessary....
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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...
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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...
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THEN THOU SHALL CUT OFF HER HAND,.... Which was to be done not by the
man that strove with her husband, or by any bystander, but by the
civil magistrate or his order. This severity was used to deter w...
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_Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her]._
Ver. 12. _Cut off her hand._] The instrument of her sin. Thus Cranmer
thrust his hand, wherewith he had subscribed a recantation, f...
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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....
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CORRECT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES...
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then thou, the constituted authority, SHALT CUT OFF HER HAND, THINE
EYE SHALL NOT PITY HER. This precept was here inserted in order to
guard against a false freedom and familiarity of the female sex t...
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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...
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5-12 The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in
order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful....
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Partly because of the great mischief she did to him, both to his
person and posterity, and partly to deter all women from all immodest
and impudent carriages, and to secure that modesty which is indee...
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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...
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REGULATIONS CONCERNING FAIR TREATMENT TO ANOTHER PARTY (DEUTERONOMY
25:4).
The principle in these regulations is that of fair and just treatment
towards other parties. The ox who treads out the grain...
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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...
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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...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 25:1__ The laws in this section
relate to things like administering justice, providing for widows, and
being honest in business. They relate to the ninth commandment: “...
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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...
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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
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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...
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Deuteronomy 19:13; Deuteronomy 19:21...