Deuteronomy 19

A false witness shall not be unpunished (Proverbs 19:5). If the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother: that is, if he had thought to have taken away his life, his own life…

1 Kings 8:39. and to give to every man according to his ways, that is, 2 Chronicles 6:30. and render to every man according to all his ways. Deuteronomy 19:15. At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall the matter be established, that is, 2 Corinthians 13:1. shall every word b…

This is evident from the express antithesis in the words, You have heard what has been said of old time, but I say to you: Now these were two, (1) That there was no evil in an oath at any time, but only in swearing falsely. This they gathered, (as they fathered their most absurd…

Of all which, and the application of them to particular cases, I have given a description in the Exercitations to the first Volume of these Commentaries. And it is said, that he died without mercy, not only because there was no allowance for any such mercy as should save and del…

If he did it ignorantly, unawares, and no way sought the harm of the slain man, he is not to be punished as a murderer: this we see in the context (ver. 15, 23, 24, 25). The City of Refuge was for such an one (Deuteronomy 19:4, 5). And this is the case of the slayer, which shall…

By INCREASE MATHER, Teacher of a Church of Christ. Deut. 19:20, 21. And those which remain shall hear, and fear, & shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. And your eye shall not pity, but life shall go for eye for eye, tooth for tooth, head for head, foot for fo…

The trial of secret murder was committed to the Elders of every city (Deuteronomy 21:3, 4). They delivered the willful murderer to the Avenger of blood, to be put to death (Deuteronomy 19:12). They condemned a stubborn son to death (Deuteronomy 21:19).

I shall next put him in mind that the Septuagint sometime turn Kahal by [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], as (Proverbs 26:26), His wickedness shall be shewed before the whole Congregation, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩]. And it is plain that the name of the Congregation, or Church, is given…

Heaven is the workhouse of all that befalls you; every evil is the birth that lay in the womb of an infinitely wise decree; so God is said to frame evil, as a potter does an earthen vessel (so [illegible] jatsar signifies) (Jeremiah 18:11); to frame a vessel of clay is a work of…

But since they chased them away, it was requisite that themselves should be chased and deprived of all help and succor. For just and equal is that sentence of the Lord, who commands that every one receive that measure which himself has measured (Deuteronomy 19:19-21, Matthew 7:2…

two or three witnesses. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established, (Deuteronomy 19:15). Alluding to that law, Christ says that, when two or three witnesses shall rise up to condemn the obstinacy of the man, the case will b…

8. That Witnesses be examined strictly and their testimony duly weighed (Deuteronomy 13:14). 9. That false Witnesses have that done to them, which they would have done to others, or brought upon them (Deuteronomy 19:19). 10. That a Calf be slain where a dead Body is found, the M…

An eie for an eie, and atooth for a tooth: wherein the Lord requirs, requitall of like for like, not by every priuate man, but by the publike Magistrate. As if a man did put out his neighbours eie, then the Magistrate should put out his []ie; and strike out his tes, that strikes…

And if this rigor and wholesome severity were but once used, we should not have so many oaths set out to hire, nor would any make it a trade to be a witness; but innocency would be secured under the protection of the laws, and the laws themselves be innocent of the ruin of many…

It is an ancient law upon record (Genesis 9:6): Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed — as if there were no other way for expiation, no other method to wash away the stain and guilt of blood, but only by his who unjustly spilt it. And again (Deuteronomy 19:21…

3. The various words used by the Scripture, as 1. Bewitching of the hearts, and charming the Galatians from the sound doctrine of justification through faith only (Gal. 3:1) to justification by works, prove that influences that take yesterday will not take today, for they were h…

For to demand one's right, is not contrary to love; nor to seek to amend and humble the party nocent by the magistrate's authority, who is the minister of God for good (Romans 13:4). And that others may hear and fear (Deuteronomy 19:20). And the party damaged may for the future…

7. He who Fears God is not only afraid of evil actions, but to offend God in his Thoughts. Deuteronomy 19:6. Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, etc. To think of sin with delight is to act it over in the fancy, this is Culpable.

It is but reason we should allow God that value and esteem that we give to the testimony of men, who are fallible and deceitful. Among men, in the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is established (Deuteronomy 19:15). Now there are three that bear witness in heaven, and…

Judas was a saint without, but a sinner within, openly a disciple, but secretly a devil (John 6:70). Some pretend to inward sanctity without outward; this is the pretense of the open sinner, though I sometimes drop an idle foolish word, says he, or though I sometimes swear an oa…

And among all the places in Moses' Books, Prophets, the Books of Kings, Chronicles, where it is spoken of, we shall never find this condemned as murder, but still spoken against as Idolatry, a corruption of God's worship, and so recorded among such transgressions. Besides, accor…

Some proceeded to banishment, some to whipping, some at last to the punishment of death. False witness was among the Jews punished with recompense of equal pain (Deuteronomy 19:18), in some places only with great shame, in some places with hanging, in other some with the Cross.…

He that formed the eye shall he not see (Psalm 94:9). When a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights upon his neighbor that he die (Deuteronomy 19:5), God…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because God has expressly commanded that transgressing idolaters be put to death. (Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 19:21.) (2) Because it belongs to the office and duty of the Magistrate to punish the guilty with death. (Romans 13:4; 1 Peter…

He who will hold that the Christian magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to show some scripture for it. 2. That judicial law for having two or three witnesses in judgement (Deuterono…