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Deuteronomy 22
Laws for preserving stray or fallen cattle, ver. 1-4. For a
distinction of apparel between women and men, ver. 5. For
compassion even toward birds, ver. 6, 7. Of battlements on
houses, ver. 8. Against improper mixtures, ver. 9-11. Of fringes,
ver. 12. Of a wife, falsely accused, ver. 13-19. Justly accused, ver.
20, 21. The punishment of adultery, rape, fornication, ver. 22-29.
Of incest, ver. 30.
Verse 1. Thy brother's - Any man's. Thou shalt not hide thyself -
Dissemble or pretend that thou dost not see them; or pass them by
as if thou hadst not seen them.
Verse 2. To thine own house - To be used like thine own cattle.
Verse 3. Hide thyself - Dissemble that thou hast found it. Or, hide it, that
is, conceal the thing lost.
Verse 5. Shall not wear - Namely, ordinarily or unnecessarily, for in
some cases this may be lawful, as to make an escape for one's life.
Now this is forbidden, both for decency sake, that men might not
confound those sexes which God hath distinguished, that all
appearance of evil might be avoided, such change of garments
carrying a manifest sign of effeminacy in the man, of arrogance in
the woman, of lightness and petulancy in both; and also to cut off
all suspicions and occasions of evil, which this practice opens a
wide door to.
Verse 7. Let the dam go - Partly for the bird's sake, which suffered
enough by the loss of its young; for God would not have cruelty
exercised towards the brute creatures: and partly for mens sake, to
refrain their greediness, that, they should not monopolize all to
themselves, but leave the hopes of a future seed for others.
Verse 8. A battlement - A fence or breastwork, because the roofs of their
houses were made flat, that men might walk on them. Blood - The
guilt of blood, by a man's fall from the top of thy house, thro' thy
neglect of this necessary provision. The Jew's say, that by the
equity of this law, they are obliged, and so are we, to fence or
remove every thing, whereby life may he endangered, as wells, or
bridges, lest if any perish thro' our omission, their blood be
required at our hand.
Verse 9. Divers seeds - Either
1. With divers kinds of seed mixed and sowed together between
the rows of vines in thy vineyard: which was forbidden to be done
in the field, Lev. xix, 19, and here, in the vineyard. Or,
2. With any kind of seed differing from that of the vine, which
would produce either herbs, or corn, or fruit-bearing trees, whose
fruit might be mingled with the fruit of the vines. Now this and
the following precepts, tho' in themselves small and trivial, are
given, according to that time and state of the church, for
instructions in greater matters, and particularly to commend to
them simplicity in all their carriage towards God and man, and to
forbid all mixture of their inventions with God's institutions in
doctrine or worship. Defiled - Legally and morally, as being
prohibited by God's law, and therefore made unclean; as on the
contrary, things are sanctified by God's word, allowing and
approving them, 1 Tim. iv, 5.
Verse 10. An ox and an ass - Because the one was a clean beast, the
other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting
themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things.
Verse 12. Fringes - Or laces, or strings, partly to bring the commands of
God to their remembrance, as it is expressed, Num. xv, 38, and
partly is a public profession of their nation and religion, whereby
they might be distinguished from strangers, that so they might be
more circumspect to behave as became the people of God, and
that they should own their religion before all the world. Thou
coverest thyself - These words seem restrictive to the upper
garment wherewith the rest were covered.
Verse 13. If any man take a wife - And afterward falsely accuse her-
What the meaning of that evidence is, by which the accusation
was proved false, the learned are not agreed. Nor is it necessary
for us to know: they for whom this law was intended, undoubtedly
understood it.
Verse 19. The father - Because this was a reproach to his family, and to
himself, as such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been
ascribed to his evil education.
Verse 24. She cried not - And therefore is justly presumed to have
consented to it.
Verse 26. Even so - Not an act of choice, but of force and constraint.
Verse 27. The damsel cried - Which is in that case to be presumed;
charity obliging us to believe the best, 'till the contrary be
manifest.
Verse 29. Fifty shekels - Besides the dowry, as Philo, the learned Jew
notes, which is here omitted, because that was customary, it being
sufficient here to mention what was peculiar to this case. His wife
- If her father consented to it.
Verse 30. Take - To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch
speaks of the act only.
Chapter 22:
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