No text from Poole on this verse.
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 s...
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 fo...
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 p...
The Book of the Covenant (continued) I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves. Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the M...
(22-25) A personal injury peculiar to women — a hurt producing miscarriage — is here considered. The miscarriage might cost the woman her life, in wh...
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 t...
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. Thi...
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 u...
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,...
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...
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 cons...
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,...
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...
Regulations Concerning the Causing of Injury ( Exodus 21:22-27 ). This may be analysed as follows: a Where a pregnant woman loses her child in a...
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 prin...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . I. Laws connected with the rights of persons ( Exodus 21:1-2 ). The regulations...
Concerning Murder and Bodily Injuries
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. That was the law of retaliation as it could be invoked by such as sought indemnity for injur...
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.