“ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ”
Afflict - A word including all cold and contemptuous treatment. See Deuteronomy 10:18 . Contrast the blessing, Deuteronomy 14:29 .
Exodus 22:18-31 E. Various Ordinances. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and theref...
widow , or fatherless. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, put for all kinds of helpless ones.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child - It is remarkable that offenses against this law are not left to the discretion of the judges...
Ye shall not afflict any widow, &c.— The humanity of the Divine law is always discernible: none are so helpless and pitiable, as widows and orphans: God therefore enjoins, under the severest pe...
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child, х lo' ( H3808 ) tª`anuwn ( H6031 )] - ye shall not afflict or humble. The wo...
The Book of the Covenant (continued) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately...
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous....
CHAPTER XXII. THE LESSER LAW (continued). PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19 . The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of the...
The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is tha...
How precious these tokens of divine love to peculiar situations. Proverbs 22:22-23 ; Psalms 12:5 .
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. Who have no friends, husband, or father to be on their side and protect them, and are weak and helpless to defend themselves, and therefore it mu...
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Ver. 22. Or fatherless child. ] With God "the fatherless findeth mercy." Hos 14:3 Widows and orphans are God's clients, taken into his protecti...
Ye shall not afflict the widow, or fatherless child That is, ye shall comfort and assist them, and be ready upon all occasions to show them kindness. In making just demands from them, their conditi...
LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and le...
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money acc...
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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...
SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES WITCHCRAFT.— Exodus 22:18 The term is here used to represent the whole class of wizards, necromancers, and diviners with which the world has been infested fro...
Exodus 22:2 . Breaking up, by forcible entrance into a house, there shall no blood be shed for him, though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to...
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. God’s care for the widow and fatherless I. That widows and orphans have claims upon our regard. 1. They have claims upon our sympathy. Th...
EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, an...
Regarding Various Social Relations
Deuteronomy 10:18 Deuteronomy 24:17 Deuteronomy 27:19 Psalms 94:6 Psalms 94:7 Isaiah 1:17 Isaiah 1:23 Isaiah 10:2 Ezekiel 22:7 Zechariah 7:10 James 1:27
Ye shall not afflict the widow or fatherless child — That is, ye shall comfort and assist them, and be ready upon all occasions to shew them kindness. In making just demands from them, their condit...