life for life Numbers 35:31
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...
life . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. See App-13.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, No JFB commentary on this verse.
The Book of the Covenant (continued) I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves. Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the M...
Any mischief ] beyond the loss of the child ( Exodus 21:22 ). The law of retaliation ('like for like') is common to all early stages of civilisati...
Life for life, eye for eye. — It is a reasonable conjecture that the law of retaliation was much older than Moses, and accepted by him as tolerable...
(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...
And if any mischief follow ,.... According as that is, so shall it be done to the smiter: if death follows, then thou shalt give life for life ; i...
And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Ver. 23. And if any mischief follow. ] Either by death or maim, either of mother...
And yet no mischief follow That is, if the woman die not, as appears from the next verse, or the child was not formed and alive in the womb; he sh...
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,...
Any mischief; either to the mother or to the child, whether it be death, or any maim or mischief. Who shall give life for life? Answ . Not the p...
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
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,