Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Deuteronomy 22:27
for he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, called for help, and there was none to save her. It was a plain case of rape.
for he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, called for help, and there was none to save her. It was a plain case of rape.
18. AGAINST INHUMANITY AND DIFFERENT VIOLATIONS, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1)_ 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13)...
SINS AGAINST PURE MARRIAGES. Deuteronomy 22:14. tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contrary, a...
_cried_ Here at least the woman has the advantage of the doubt....
Of Intercourse with a Betrothed Virgin: (1) Deuteronomy 22:23 f., with her consent, in which case both she and the man are stoned, as in the case of Adultery (Deuteronomy 22:22), for the bride-price h...
Six Laws on Cases of Unchastity Of these the first five prescribe the procedure in criminal cases: 1st. Of a Husband's Charges against His Bride (Deuteronomy 22:13-21); 2nd. Of Adultery (Deuteronomy...
(3) DEFILEMENT OF A MAIDEN BETROTHED (Deuteronomy 22:23-27) 23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 then ye shall bring...
LAWS REGARDING LOST PROPERTY, DISTINCTION OF SEX IN APPAREL, AND CHASTITY 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 V1 ‘You may see that your neighbour’s *ox or sheep is loose. If you do, you must not avoid i...
Deuteronomy 22:23. PURITY OF THE BETROTHED. (24) HIS NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE. — It is evident from the language of this precept that a betrothed virgin in Israel is regarded as _a wife._ The man who humbles...
כִּ֥י בַ † שָּׂדֶ֖ה מְצָאָ֑הּ צָעֲקָ֗ה _הַֽ_†_נַּעֲרָה֙_
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequate as...
LAWS OF KINDNESS WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, elude...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt an...
Some of the laws in this book of Leviticus, were before given: Leviticus 20:10. The repetition in this place, only serves to intimate their importance. And it is a very solemn consideration, equally i...
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 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
FOR HE FOUND HER IN THE FIELD,.... Which is a circumstance in her favour, from which it might he presumed that she was forced, and did not consent; for had the sin been committed by agreement, they wo...
_She cried not_ And therefore is justly presumed to have consented to it. _As when a man riseth against his neighbour, even so is this matter_ Not an act of choice, but of force and constraint. _The d...
1 Of humanitie toward brethren. 5 The sexe is to bee distinguished by apparell. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her yong ones. 8 The house must haue battlements. 9 Confusion is to be auoyded. 1...
LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our disc...
13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint...
THE DAMSEL CRIED; which is in that case to be presumed; charity obliging us to believe the best till the contrary be manifest....
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
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DEALING WITH THE RAPE OF A BETROTHED WOMAN (DEUTERONOMY 22:25). Deuteronomy 22:25 ‘ But if the man find the young woman who is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then th...
DEALING WITH SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOUR (DEUTERONOMY 22:22). Various aspect of sexual misbehaviour are dealt with in this passage with the most heinous at the beginning and the end. Analysis using the word...
CONTENTS: Law of brotherhood, separation, unchaste wives and husbands. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Christianity teaches us to be neighborly and to be ready to do all good offices as we have...
Deuteronomy 22:5. _All that do so are abomination to the Lord._ The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presenting t...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that no pena...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST, THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES, THE TAKING OF BIRDS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
Now in chapter twenty-two, now in those days they punished people for none involvement. If you saw your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and you just try to ignore it: [you don't go out and get...
1 Corinthians 13:7...
The damsel cried — Which is in that case to be presumed; charity obliging us to believe the best, 'till the contrary be manifest....