Exodus 22:28
What meaning of the exodus 22:28 in the Bible?
What does Exodus 22:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou shalt not revile the gods,c nor curse the ruler of thy people."
What does Exodus 22:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou shalt not revile the gods,c nor curse the ruler of thy people."
Verse Exodus 22:28. _THOU SHALT NOT REVILE THE GODS_] Most commentators believe that the word _gods_ here means _magistrates_. The original is אלהים _Elohim_, and should be understood of the true God...
THE GODS - Heb. אלהים _'ělôhı̂ym_. See Exodus 21:6 note. Many take it as the name of God (as in Genesis 1:1), and this certainly seems best to represent the Hebrew, and to suit the context. CURSE T...
CHAPTER 22 FURTHER JUDGMENTS _ 1. Concerning theft (Exodus 22:1)_ 2. Concerning neglect in case of fire (Exodus 22:6) 3. Concerning dishonesty (Exodus 22:7) 4. Concerning immoralities and forbidde...
EXODUS 22:18 E. VARIOUS ORDINANCES. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and therefore here reg...
CURSE. Compare Ecclesiastes 10:20; Acts 23:5; 2 Peter 2:10; Jude 1:8....
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
THOU SHALT NOT REVILE THE GODS— _The magistrates._ See note on ch. Exodus 21:6 and Romans 13:1. _The ruler of thy people_ means here any one _elevated_ (according to the original) in dignity and autho...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 22 IF A MAN SHALL STEAL AN OX, OR A SHEEP, AND KILL IT, OR SELL IT; HE SHALL PAY FIVE OXEN FOR AN OX, AND FOUR SHEEP FOR A SHEEP. (2) IF THE THIEF BE FOUND BREAKING IN,...
_THOU SHALT NOT REVILE THE GODS, NOR CURSE THE RULER OF THY PEOPLE._ Thou shalt not revile the gods. Josephus, who endeavours so often to accommodate his religion to pagan tastes and prejudices, inte...
22:28 judges, (a-6) Or 'God' lit. _ Elohim_ . see Note c, ch. 21.6....
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately hig...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 22 LAWS ABOUT PROPERTY – VERSES 1-15 V1 The *LORD continued to spea...
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Mo...
_[Exodus 22:27]_ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א תְקַלֵּ֑ל וְ נָשִׂ֥יא בְ עַמְּךָ֖ לֹ֥א תָאֹֽר׃...
CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them withou...
The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is that...
_Gods. Judges, priests, &c. Josephus and Philo say, we must not speak ill of strange gods, lest the Gentiles should take occasion to blaspheme the true God, and that we may be farther removed from the...
Acts 23:5....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
_SUNDRY LAWS FOR ISRAEL_ ‘If thou … Thou shalt not … Ye shall.’ Exodus 22:23; Exodus 22:28; Exodus 22:31 I. RESTITUTION IS ONE OF THE PRIME THOUGHTS IN THIS LESSON.—Alas that this is far from being...
Exodus 22:28._Thou shalt not revile the gods_. These four passages confirm what I have said, that in the: Fifth Commandment are comprised, by _synecdoche _all superiors in authority.: For it was not t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
THOU SHALT NOT REVILE THE GODS,.... Meaning not the idols of the Gentiles, which they reckon gods, and worship as such; which is the sense of Philo, and some others, particularly Josephus i, who, to c...
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. Ver. 28. _Thou shalt not revile the gods._] Blaspheme dignities. Jdg 1:8 This is blasphemy is the second table....
_Thou shalt not revile the gods_ That is, the judges and magistrates. Princes and magistrates are our fathers, whom the fifth commandment obligeth us to honour, and forbids us to _revile._ St. Paul ap...
1 Of theft. 5 Of dammage. 7 Of trespasses. 14.Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestialitie. 20 Of idolatrie. 21 Of strangers, widowes, and fatherlesse. 25 Of vsurie. 2...
REGARDING VARIOUS SOCIAL RELATIONS...
C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and leave...
GODS: Or, judges...
GODS; not gods falsely so called, as some would have it, as appears by 1 KINGS 18:27 JEREMIAH 10:11; but magistrates and governors, whether civil or ecclesiastical, as it is evident both from ACTS 23:...
The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...
Exodus 22:28 revile H7043 (H8762) God H430 curse H779 (H8799) ruler H5387 people H5971 the gods - or, judges, Exodus 22:8-9; Psalms 32:6, Psalms 82:1-7, Psalms 138:1; John 10:34-35 nor curse -...
EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...
CONTENTS: Judgments on rights of property; crimes against humanity. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Man's attitude to his fellow man will be based on his attitude to God and His law. KEY WORD:...
Exodus 22:2. _Breaking up,_ by forcible entrance into a house, _there shall no blood be shed for him,_ though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to ha...
_The ruler of thy people._ THE DIVINE RIGHT OF MAGISTRATES TO RESPECT I. That the powers that be are ordained of God (Romans 13:1; 1 Peter 2:13). II. That magistrates must re treated with respect,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 22:31. And ye shall be holy men.] This seemingly abrupt clause is to be taken in a relation of strict _sequence_ with all that has gone before. As much as to say: “And so—namel...
EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, and, as he has been s...
If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1). You see in those days they were interested in taking ca...
the gods. or judges Exodus 22:8 Exodus 22:9 Psalms 32:6 Psalms 82:1 Psalms 138:1 John 10:34 John 10:35 nor curse Exodus 21:17 1 Samuel 24:6 1 Samuel 24:10
Thou shalt not revile the gods — That is, the judges and magistrates. Princes and magistrates are our fathers, whom the fifth commandment obligeth us to honour, and forbids us to revile. St. Paul appl...