“ Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ”
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...
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...
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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 .
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. This is to be understood of burning a man's flesh with fire; of wounds made by any means, so that the blood is let out; and of blows, and th...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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