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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 22:14-19

CONCERNING BORROWING.—Exodus 22:14-15This is an extension of the preceding principles. Borrowing might be for the purpose of—1, obligation; or 2, trade.I. If that which was borrowed received hurt in the absence of its owner, Exodus 22:14, the owner was to be indemnified.II. But if, as might be the case when the loan were cattle, and the owner were present, the sum for which it was hired was understood to cover the risk of accident, and the owner bore the loss.Learn—i. On the one hand—(1.) to be... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Exodus 22:1-31

Chapter 22If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep ( Exodus 22:1 ).You see in those days they were interested in taking care of the innocent party, now something's gone wrong in our judgments today. We're interested in the rights of the criminal; we're no longer interested in the rights of the person who has been victimized by the crime. You're out of luck. "But let's guard and protect the rights of this... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 22:1-31

Exodus 22:2. Breaking up, by forcible entrance into a house, there shall no blood be shed for him, though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to have a worse design, and the owner of the house could neither expect, nor have the help of others to secure him from the intended violence, nor guide his blows with that discretion and moderation which in the daytime he might wish to do. Exodus 22:3. There shall be blood shed for him. He that... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 22:14-15

Exodus 22:14-15If a man borrow.Borrowing1. God in His law provideth against hurting our neighbour’s goods by borrowing.2. Hurt and death may come to things borrowed without the sin of the borrower.3. In case of the borrower’s faultlessness in hurt, no restitution doth God award.4. In case of wilful hurt and spoil the borrower by God’s law must make it good.5. Things wilfully hurt which are borrowed by hire must be satisfied by God’s law.6. Perishing of such in a lawful use of them, God’s law... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 22:15

Exodus 22:15 [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing], it came for his hire. Ver. 15. It came for his hire, ] q.d., He shall pay the hire only, and no more, though the owner be not by when it miscarrieth. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 22:15

it came for his hire: Zechariah 8:10 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:5 - for it was borrowed read more

Daniel Whedon

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

THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33. Here follows a collection of sundry laws which were compiled by Moses, and doubtless represent the oldest written legislation of the Pentateuch. This compilation probably constituted “the book of the covenant” which is mentioned in Exodus 24:7. Kalisch classifies the laws under three heads: (1 . ) Those touching the rights of persons, Exodus 21:1-32; (2 . ) Those touching the rights of property, Exodus 21:33 to Exodus 23:14; and (3 . )... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 22:15

15. If it be a hired thing If the owner let it out for money in advance or to be paid, that payment was to be taken as the sole compensation in the case . read more

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