Chapter 25:
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Deuteronomy 25
Stripes not to exceed forty, ver. 1-3. The ox not to be
muzzled, ver. 4. Of marrying the brother's widow, ver. 5-10. Of
an immodest woman, ver. 11, 12. Of just weights and measures, ver. 13-16. Amalek to be
destroyed, ver. 17-19.
Verse 1. Justify - Acquit him from guilt and false accusations, and free
him from punishment.
Verse 2. Beaten - Which the Jews say was the case of all those crimes
which the law commands to be punished, without expressing the
kind or degree of punishment. Before his face - That the
punishment may be duly inflicted, without excess or defect. And
from this no person's rank or quality exempted him, if he was a
delinquent.
Verse 3. Forty stripes - It seems not superstition, but prudent caution,
when the Jews would not exceed thirty-nine stripes, lest through
mistake or forgetfulness they should go beyond their bounds,
which they were commanded to keep. Should seem vile - Should
be made contemptible to his brethren, either by this cruel usage of
him, as if he were a brute beast: or by the deformity or infirmity
of body which excessive beating might produce.
Verse 4. He treadeth out the corn - Which they did in those parts, either
immediately by their hoofs on by drawing carts or other
instruments over the corn. Hereby God taught them humanity,
even to their beasts that served them, and much more to their
servants or other men who laboured for them, especially to their
ministers, 1 Cor. ix, 9.
Verse 5. Together - In the same town, or at least country. For if the next
brother had removed his habitation into remote parts, on were
carried thither into captivity, then the wife of the dead had her
liberty to marry the next kinsman that lived in the same place with
her. One - Any of them, for the words are general, and the reason
of the law was to keep up the distinction of tribes and families,
that so the Messiah might be discovered by the family from which
he was appointed to proceed; and also of inheritances, which were
divided among all the brethren, the first-born having only a
double portion. A stranger - To one of another family.
Verse 6. That his name be not put out - That a family be not lost. So this
was a provision that the number of their families might not be
diminished.
Verse 9. Loose his shoe - As a sign of his resignation of all his right to
the woman, and to her husband's inheritance: for as the shoe was a
sign of one's power and right, Psalm lx, 8; cviii, 9, so the parting
with the shoe was a token of the alienation of such right; and as a
note of infamy, to signify that by this disingenuous action he was
unworthy to be amongst free-men, and fit to be reduced to the
condition of the meanest servants, who used to go barefoot, Isaiah
xx, 2, 4.
Verse 10. His name - That is, his person, and his posterity also. So it was
a lasting blot.
Verse 13. A great and a small - The great to buy with, the small for
selling.
Verse 17. Out of Egypt - Which circumstance greatly aggravates their
sin, that they should do thus to a people, who had been long
exercised with sore afflictions, to whom pity was due by the laws
of nature and humanity, and for whose rescue God had in so
glorious a manner appeared, which they could not be ignorant of.
So this was barbarousness to Israel, and setting the great Jehovah
at defiance.
Chapter 25:
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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| Wesley
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