Pity. This regarded the judge, who must act with impartiality. (Worthington) --- The law admits of no mitigation, but inflicts the same punishment on the calumniating witness, as he intended should fall upon his brother. (Lyranus; &c.) --- Some Rabbins (apud Fag.) pretend that this was executed with rigour, only when the innocent had sustained some real injury. See Exodus xxi. 24. (Calmet)
Verse Deuteronomy 19:21. _LIFE - FOR LIFE, EYE FOR EYE, C._] The operation of such a law as this must have been very salutary: if a man prized his own members, he would naturally avoid injuring those...
See the marginal references....
DEUTERONOMY 19:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 25:19. Consists of miscellaneous laws having no apparent connexion with D's great law of the centralisation of worship. They deal with crime, war, marriage, family rel...
EYE. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6). LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Compare Exodus 21:23....
_thine eye shall not pity_ See on Deuteronomy 19:13; Deuteronomy 7:16. _life for life_, etc.] The _jus talionis_, more fully in E, Exodus 21:24 f.; cp. H,...
Of Witnesses Two or three witnesses are necessary for a conviction (Deuteronomy 19:15). If a witness, forcing his evidence, accuse a man of defection from the law, the two shall stand before God in t...
(3) CONCERNING WITNESSES AND JUDGMENT (Deuteronomy 19:15-21) 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses,...
_IF A FALSE WITNESS RISE UP AGAINST ANY MAN TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIM THAT WHICH IS WRONG;_ But if convicted of perjury, it will be sufficient for his own condemnation, and his punishment shall be exactl...
THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS 1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....
See on Exodus 21:23 and cp. Leviticus 24:20....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 19 V1 ‘The *LORD your God will *destroy the nations whose country he is giving to you. You will...
Deuteronomy 19:15. FALSE TESTIMONY. The law of retaliation is sternly laid down here; but it must be administered by the judges, not by men acting on their own behalf. (17) BOTH THE MEN... SHALL STAND...
וְ לֹ֥א תָחֹ֖וס עֵינֶ֑ךָ נֶ֣פֶשׁ בְּ נֶ֗פֶשׁ
THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secular an...
Still with his mind on the fact that the people were coming into the land, Moses made further applications of the laws to the new conditions. His words now had to do with life and land and truth and j...
Was not the suretyship of JESUS pointed out in this law? Did not JESUS when redeeming his people, give an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth? Was not this literally indeed the case, when he who k...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21. Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that the la...
AND THINE EYE SHALL NOT PITY,.... The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges, who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but pronounce a righteous sentence on...
And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Ver. 21. _Eye for eye, tooth for tooth._] _See Trapp on "_ Mat 5:38 _"_...
_An eye for an eye_ What punishment the law allotted to the accused, if he had been convicted, the same was the false accuser to bear....
1 The Cities of refuge. 4 The priuiledge thereof for the manslayer. 14 The land-marke is not to be remooued. 15 Two witnesses at the least. 16 The punishment of a false witnesse. 1 WHEN the LORD t...
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, namely, in punishing the false witness. The punishment of a false witness, even to...
PRECEPTS REGARDING WITNESSES...
CITIES OF REFUGE (vs.1-13) We have seen in Deuteronomy 4:41 that Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan as cities of refuge. Now Moses gives instructions to Israel that, when God should cut...
15-21 Sentence should never be passed upon the testimony of one witness alone. A false witness should suffer the same punishment which he sought to have inflicted upon the person he accused. Nor could...
What punishment he intended or the law allotted to the accused, if he had been convicted, the same shall the false accuser bear. Of this law see on EXODUS 21:23 LEVITICUS 24:20...
"When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; thou shalt separate three cities...
Deuteronomy 19:21 eye H5869 pity H2347 (H8799) life H5315 life H5315 eye H5869 eye H5869 tooth H8127 tooth
THE EVIDENCE REQUIRED BEFORE CONVICTION FOR A CRIME: THE PUNISHMENT OF FALSE WITNESSES (DEUTERONOMY 19:15). The section on justice and the governing of the land which began at Deuteronomy 16:18 now en...
CONTENTS: Cities of refuge; landmarks, witnesses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God would possess men with a great horror and dread of the sin of killing another, even by chance. If by willful...
Deuteronomy 19:14. _Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark._ This prohibition was salutary in preserving the public peace; it also extended to the removal of the boundaries between the tribes,...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:21 EYE SHALL NOT PITY. See Deuteronomy 13:8. LIFE FOR LIFE. Punishment is to be appropr
CRITICAL NOTES.—This and the next two Chapter s contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.—_Speak. Com_. With Deuteronomy 19:1 _cf_. Exodus 21:13, and Nu...
EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES. DEUTERONOMY 19:1 Moses had be
Now in the nineteenth chapter again, they are told to establish the cities of refuge; three of them when they come into the land. Three had already been established on the other side of Jordan. But wh...
Deuteronomy 19:13; Exodus 21:23; Leviticus 24:17; Matthew 5:38;...
Eye for eye — What punishment the law allotted to the accused, if he had been convicted, the same shall the false accuser bear....