“ Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ”
The rule would seem to refer to a case in which the wife of a man interfered in a quarrel. This law, “the jus talionis,” is elsewhere repeated in substance, compare the marginal references. and Ge...
(r) Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (r) The execution of this law only belonged to the magistrate, ( Matthew 5:38 ).
Exodus 21:18-27 E. Injuries. If one man injures another in a quarrel ( Exodus 21:18 ), he must, on the recovery of the other, compensate him for the loss of time and pay his doctor's bill ( Exo...
Eye for eye , &c. Lex talionis, eight particulars for completeness (App-10), seven in separate category (verses: Exodus 21:24 ; Exodus 21:26 ). These laws made prisons unnecessary, and preve...
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Eye for eye - This is the earliest account we have of the lex talionis, or law of like for like, which afterwards prevailed among the Greek...
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, &c.— See Leviticus 24:20 .
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Eye for eye. The law which authorized retaliation-a principle acted upon by all primitive people-was a civil one. It was given to r...
The Book of the Covenant (continued) I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves. Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the Mosaic Law does not abolish it. Among the Hebrews,...
(22-25) A personal injury peculiar to women — a hurt producing miscarriage — is here considered. The miscarriage might cost the woman her life, in which case the man who caused it was to suffer death...
CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (continued). PART II.--RIGHTS OF THE PERSON. Exodus 21:1-32 . The first words of God from Sinai had declared that He was Jehovah Who brought them out of slavery...
At this point we have certain laws which apply the principles of the Decalogue to life. The first movement has to do with the laws of the person. This begins with the relation of slaves to their mast...
The gospel sums up these things in a comprehensive manner. Colossians 3:25 . And our dear Lord folds up the sense of those relative duties, in his unequalled language, Matthew 5:38-39 .
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. This is "lex talionis", the law of retaliation, and from whence the Heathens had theirs; but whether this is to be taken strictly and lit...
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Ver. 24. Eye for eye. ] How the Pharisees had wrested that text. See Trapp on " Mat 5:39 " This kind of law, in use among heathens a...
Eye for eye , &c. This is termed the law of retaliation; and from hence heathen lawgivers took it, and put it among their other laws. It seems probable, that it was not necessary always to tak...
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MASTERS (vs.1-11) Moses is now given an expanded view of the law on Chapter s 21-23. Special duties of masters are first considered. They may think they have full authority ov...
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him...
This is called the law of retaliation, and from hence the heathen lawgivers took it and put it into their laws. But though this might sometimes be practised in the letter, yet it was not necessarily...
Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on th...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:11-19 GOD’S DISAPPROBATION OF BRUTE FORCE.— Exodus 21:22-25 I. One of the great underlying principles and fundamental axioms of the Mosaic legisl...
Eye for eye ( Leviticus 24:20 ); ( Deuteronomy 19:21 ); ( Matthew 5:38-44 ); ( 1 Peter 2:19-21 ). The provision in Exodus is law, and righteous; the New Testament passages are grace, and merci...
Exodus 21:1 . These are the judgments. In this chapter we enter upon the fifty seven precepts of the civil law of the Hebrew nation. They are the laws of patriarchal society; and are here arranged...
Life for life. The criminal law: was it written in blood The only sense in which retaliation was authorized was as a maxim of law, which helped to fix the measure of punishment for crime. It wa...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . I. Laws connected with the rights of persons ( Exodus 21:1-2 ). The regulations of this section concern— 1 . Slavery ( Exodus 2...
Concerning Murder and Bodily Injuries
This is the earliest account we have of the Lex Talionis, law Exodus 21:26 Exodus 21:27 Leviticus 24:19 Leviticus 24:20 Deuteronomy 19:21 Judges 1:6 Judges 1:7 1 Samuel 15:33 Matthew...
Eye for eye — The execution of this law is not put into the hands of private persons, as if every man might avenge himself, which would introduce universal confusion. The tradition of the elders se...