Leviticus 19:14

Leviticus 19:14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, &c.— Though the humanity of these precepts renders them very reasonable and intelligible in the letter, yet many of the Jewish writers, no less than Christian expositors, understand them in a figurative sense, importing, that we should be careful not to injure those who are incapable of defending themselves from the injury; as a deaf man is from defamation, or a blind man from a stumbling-block laid in his way: or, the latter, of putting a stumbling-block before the blind, may be understood of giving evil counsel to the simple, and advising the ignorant and credulous to their hurt. See Deuteronomy 27:18.