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Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 22:1-31

Negative Commandments Exodus 22-23 We cannot read the book of Exodus without being struck by the number of things which we are not to do. These detailed and emphatic prohibitions we may regard under the name of negative commandments. We are not left to ourselves in any instance to determine a case of doubt; from beginning to end the Divine voice is clear, and direct, and final in its tone. These negative commandments are interesting upon every ground; but perhaps especially so as revealing... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 22:15

Especially, &c. This is a third case, in which the person who lends, suffers all the loss, in consideration of the money which he had received. Others explain, "If he be a hired servant, he shall pay out of his wages," Syriac. (Grotius) read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Exodus 22:1-15

Regarding Property v. 1. If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen, five head of cattle, for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. The Lord wanted complete restoration to be made, the indemnity being in proportion to the transgression. v. 2. If a thief be found breaking up, breaking through a wall, breaking into a house, Matthew 6:20, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him, his death cannot demand the vengeance which a... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Exodus 22:1-31

c.—First form of the law of the political commonwealthExodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)1Now these are the judgments [ordinances] which thou shalt set before them. 2If [when] thou buy [buyest] an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3If he came [come] in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were [be] married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master have... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Exodus 22:1-31

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 no man must live his life on the basis of selfishness or wholly alone and that wrong inflicted on neighbor by neighbor in the material realm becomes sin against God in the moral realm. Specific instructions were given on the responsibility of trustees. Within clearly defined limitations, a man... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 22:1-31

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 Words of the covenant. Notice that it begins with ‘and Yahweh said to Moses’. This proceeds as follows: a Instructions concerning future worship in obedience to the commandments in Exodus 20:3-5, for He will be with them and record His name in places where they go (Exodus 20:22-26). b ... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 22:14-17

Two Further Commandments (Exodus 22:14-17 ). Both these verses begin with ‘and if’, differentiating them from the previous section. They deal with borrowing and enticement and stand on their own. Borrowing From A Neighbour and The Enticement of a Virgin (Exodus 22:14-17 ) These two examples go together because the first deals with borrowing a beast, the second with ‘borrowing’ a daughter. a If a man borrows some beast from his neighbour and is unable to restore it in its proper condition,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 22:7-17

Exodus 22:7-Esther : E. Breach of Trust.— A man going on a journey would make his neighbour his banker. If the money or valuables were stolen, the thief, if found, was to pay double ( Exodus 22:7); otherwise the surety must purge himself of the crime by oath at the local sanctuary ( Exodus 22:8). A similar procedure, including some ordeal or divining process, was to be used when lost property was found under suspicious circumstances ( Exodus 22:9). Where any mischance happened to an animal... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 22:15

If the owner thereof be with it: the law reasonably presumes, both that the borrower would not abuse it in the sight of its owner, and that the lender might and would take due care about it. He shall not make it good, except there be some manifest fault in the borrower, as if he should kill or wound the beast in the lender’s presence; which exception is easily to be understood from divers other laws of God. It came for his hire, i.e. the benefit was the lender’s, and not the borrower’s, and... read more

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