"Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And thine eye shall not pity,.... The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges, who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but pronounce a righteous sentence
on him, and see it executed, in proportion to the crime, and that according to the law of retaliation: but life shall go for life; in such a case where the life of a person must have gone, if the falsehood of the testimony had not been discovered, the false witness must suffer death; in other cases, where a member would have been lost, or the price of it paid for, the same penalty was to be inflicted: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot; that is, the price of an eye an eye, &c. see Exo 21:23 . Next: Deuteronomy Chapter 20 Sacred Texts | Bible « Previous: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Deuteronomy: ... Index Next: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Deuteronomy: ... »
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And thine eye shall not pity,.... The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges, who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but pronounce a righteous sentence
on him, and see it executed, in proportion to the crime, and that according to the law of retaliation: but life shall go for life; in such a case where the life of a person must have gone, if the falsehood of the testimony had not been discovered, the false witness must suffer death; in other cases, where a member would have been lost, or the price of it paid for, the same penalty was to be inflicted: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot; that is, the price of an eye an eye, &c. see Exo 21:23 . Next: Deuteronomy Chapter 20 Sacred Texts | Bible « Previous: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Deuteronomy: ... Index Next: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Deuteronomy: ... »