Deuteronomy 19:15

_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, OR AT THE MOUTH OF THREE WITNESSES, SHALL THE MATTER BE ESTABLISHED._ One witness shall not rise. The following rules, to regulate the admission of testimony in public courts, are founded on the principles of natural justice. A single witness shall not be admitted to the condemnation of an accused person. PUNISHMENT OF A FALSE WITNESS PUNISHMENT OF A FALSE WITNESS....

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 any law be more just. Let all Christians not only be cautious in bearing witness in public, but be careful not to join in private slanders; and let all whose consciences accuse them of crime, without delay flee for refuge to the hope set before them in Jesus Christ....

Verse Deuteronomy 19:15. _ONE WITNESS SHALL NOT RISE UP, C._] Numbers 35:30....

EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES. DEUTERONOMY 19:1 Moses had before this enunciated the law concerning cities of refuge for manslayers, and had already pointed out the cities on the east of the Jordan that were to be set apart for this (Numbers 35:11, etc.; Deuteronomy 4:41, etc.), he here repeats the law with special reference to the appointment of such cities "in the midst of the

ONE WITNESS SHALL NOT RISE UP AGAINST A MAN FOR ANY INIQUITY, OR FOR ANY SIN, IN ANY SIN THAT HE SINNETH,.... Whether capital sins, or pecuniary debts; or whatsoever sins a man may be guilty of whether sins against the first or second table of the law, whether greater or lesser sins, whether in moral or civil things; the Jews except only in the case of a woman suspected of adultery and of beheading the heifer: AT THE MOUTH OF TWO WITNESSES, OR AT THE MOUTH OF THREE WITNESSES, SHALL THE MATTER BE ESTABLISHED; either for acquittance or condemnation; and the witnesses may not, as Jarchi says, write their testimony in a letter, and send it to the sanhedrim, nor may an interpreter stand between the witnesses and the judges; Deuteronomy 17:6....

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 relations, and other matters. This part of Dt. is perhaps made up of additions appended from time to time to the original code, and for that reason has double versions of the same laws (_cf. Deuteronomy 20:7_ and Deuteronomy 24:5) and double references to the same thing (_cf_. Deuteronomy 20:1 and...

ONE WITNESS. Compare Deuteronomy 17:6....

By Deuteronomy 17:6 (cp. P, Numbers 35:30), a man may not be put to death save on the evidence of more than one witness. Here the same is enforced for all cases. _One witness shall not rise up_ Or, _stand_, that is, of course, as a valid effectual witness; the vb is the same as at the end of the _v., shall a matter be established_. But in the next _v. rise up_simply means _appear, offer himself_. _in any sin that he sinneth_ Luc. omits....

(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, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. 16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days; 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have testified falsely against his brother; 19 then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the mi

19:15 sinneth. (b-22) Or 'in any sin that is committed.'...