_Thy brother’s ox or his sheep._ RESTORATION OF STRAY CATTLE AND LOST GOODS Moses urges right action in manifold relations of national life, and teaches Israel to regard all arrangements of God as sacred. They were never to cherish any bitterness or hostility towards a neighbour, but restore stray... [ Continue Reading ]
_The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man._ DOMINION OF FASHION God thought womanly attire of enough importance to have it discussed in the Bible. Just in proportion as the morals of a country or an age are depressed is that law defied. Show me the fashion plates of any century fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee._ HOW TO TAKE A BIRD’S NEST Does God take thought for birds, then? Yes, even for birds. They sow not, neither do they reap; yet our heavenly Father feedeth them. Christ: cared for birds, then; and therefore we may be sure that God cares for them. And this... [ Continue Reading ]
_Make a battlement for thy roof._ PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE A careful study of the tone and teaching of Deuteronomy can hardly fail to impress the reader with its profound ethical and religious spirit. What an emphasis is laid upon the unity and the uniqueness of the Godhead! What an insistence upon the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together._ A LAW FOR THE OX AND THE ASS There was a reason for this prohibition. The step of an ox and an ass being different, they could not pull together without causing one another much exertion and weariness. The work would be nearly twice as hard for... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts._ THE MORAL AND THE POSITIVE IN THE DUTIES OF LIFE I. That this precept exhibits a “positive” duty. The ground of this ordinance is to be sought for, not in the nature of things, but in the will of God. II. That as the inculcation of a positive duty... [ Continue Reading ]