Deuteronomy 25:1

_IF THERE BE A CONTROVERSY BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME UNTO JUDGMENT, THAT THE JUDGES MAY JUDGE THEM; THEN THEY SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS, AND CONDEMN THE WICKED._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

Inasmuch as moderation and humanity are here enjoined, it is a Supplement of the Sixth Commandment. The sum is, that, if any one is judicially condemned to be beaten with stripes, the chastisement should not be excessive. The question, however, is as to a punishment, which by lawyers is called a moderate correction, (43) and which ought to be such, as that the body torn by the whip should not be maimed or disfigured. Since, therefore, God has so far spared the guilty, as to repress even just severity, much more would He have regard paid to innocent blood; and since He prohibits the judge from using too great rigor, much less will He tolerate the violence of a private individual, if he shall employ it against his brother. But it was necessary that zeal should be thus restrained, because judges, in other respects not unjust, are often as severe against lesser offenses (_delicta_) as agains...

1-3 Every punishment should be with solemnity, that those who see it may be filled with dread, and be warned not to offend in like manner. And though the criminals must be shamed as well as put to pain, for their warning and disgrace, yet care should be taken that they do not appear totally vile. Happy those who are chastened of the Lord to humble them, that they should not be condemned with the world to destruction....

CHAPTER XXV _Punishment by whipping not to exceed forty stripes_, 1-3. _The ox that treads out the corn is not to be muzzled_, 4. _The ordinance concerning marrying the wife of that brother who_ _has died childless_, 5-10. _Of the woman who acts indecently in succouring her husband_, 11, 12. _Of false weights and measures_, 13-16. _Amalek is to be destroyed_, 17-19. NOTES ON CHAP. XXV Verse Deuteronomy 25:1. _THEY SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS_] This is a very important p

Render it: (1) If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them, and justify the righteous and condemn the wicked (compare the marginal reference. and Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15); (2) then it shall be, etc. Deuteronomy 25:2 Scourging is named as a penalty in Leviticus 19:20. The beating here spoken of would be on the back with a rod or stick (compare Proverbs 10

EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, LEVIRATE MARRIAGES, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. DEUTERONOMY 25:1 The first and second verses should be read as one sentence, of which the protasis is in Deuteronomy 25:1 and the apodosis in Deuteronomy 25:2, thus: IF THERE BE A STRIFE BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME TO JUDGMENT, AND THEY (_i_._e_._ _the judges) give judgment on them, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked, then

IF THERE BE A CONTROVERSY BETWEEN MEN,.... Between two or more: AND THEY COME UNTO JUDGMENT; into a court of judicature, bring their cause thither: THAT [THE JUDGES] MAY JUDGE THEM; who were never less than three; the great sanhedrim at Jerusalem consisted of seventy one, the lesser court was of twenty three, and the least of all three only: THEN THEY SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS, AND CONDEMN THE WICKED: acquit the one, whose cause is good, and condemn the other to punishment, who is guilty of a crime, and as that deserves; which is to do righteous judgment; the contrary to this is an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 17:15....

21. VARIOUS LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Corporal punishment (Deuteronomy 25:1)_ 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox (Deuteronomy 25:4) 3. The brother-in-law's marriage (Deuteronomy 25:5) 4. Concerning a sinful freedom (Deuteronomy 25:11) 5. Concerning divers weights and measures (Deuteronomy 25:13) 6. Concerning the conquest of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:17

DEUTERONOMY 25:1. Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilkinson- Birch, _Ancient Egyptians_, i. pp. 305, 308). The present writer saw it in Egypt in 1888; see Exodus 21:20 (showing that a slave was sometimes beaten to death), Proverbs 10:13; Proverbs 19:29. Deuteronomy 25:3. The forty stripes became thirty- nine (2 Corinthians 11:24) i

MEN. Hebrew, plural of. _i_. _h_, or _'enosh._ App-14. SHALL JUSTIFY. Compare Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 17:8; Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15....