Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 22:1-30
18. Against Inhumanity and Different Violations, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1-12 ) 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13-21 ) 3. Sins of adultery (Deuteronomy 22:22-30 ) Laws on the second table are now more fully expounded by Moses. The love to the neighbor is to be expressed by guarding and preserving that which is his property. The strayed and fallen animal belonging to another had to be helped. To leave them... read more
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:8-30
LAWS OF KINDNESSWITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, eludes the rude compulsion of law, properly so called. It ceases to be kindness when it loses spontaneity and freedom. Precept, therefore, not law, is the utmost that any lawgiver can give in respect to it; and this is precisely what we have in Deuteronomy, so far as it endeavors to incite men to... read more