And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:
Ver. 18. If men strive together.] This is counted manhood, when indeed it is doghood rather: heathens condemned it; a and yet Navarrus, a Popish casuist, Caedem recte admitti putat, ut alapa vitetur, et ad honorem recuperandum.
a Qui ulciscitur, excusatius peccat. - Ibid.