Deuteronomy 22

The Mosaic Law made adultery a death penalty (Leviticus 20:10): The adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. The usual death was stoning (Deuteronomy 22:24). The Saxons commanded the persons taken in this sin to be burnt.

It is a breach of the Ninth Commandment. Was it a sin under the law to defame a virgin (Deuteronomy 22:19), and is it not a greater sin to defame a saint, who is a member of Christ? The Heathens, by the light of nature, abhorred this sin of slandering.

Reason 1. It is first taken from the love we owe them. Secondly, from the love we owe ourselves. First, the love we owe to our brethren, God requires our love to our brethren, indeed towards our enemies' ox or ass, we should not see one of them fall under their burden or go astr…

The second note, whereby we may discern a judicial law to be moral for its equity, is this; If it follows necessarily and immediately from the light, principles, and conclusions of nature. For example (Deuteronomy 22:5): the man shall not put on the things that pertain to the wo…

In Numbers 30:6, the father may make void the vow of the child pertaining to God's worship: much more a matrimonial promise. If a young man defile a maid, and this be found, in equity he is to be compelled to marry her (Deuteronomy 22:28), yet by God's law this may not be, excep…

The participle μεμνηστευμένην, which is employed by the Evangelist, signifies that the virgin had then been engaged to her bridegroom, but was not yet given as a wife to her husband. For it was customary among Jewish parents to keep their daughters some time at home, after they…

When a “damsel betrothed to an husband” was convicted of being unchaste, the law condemned both of the guilty parties as adulterers: “the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife,” (Deuteronomy 22:23, 24.) The phr…

It is called a great wickedness against God, even on the unmarried man's part. And (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22) the temporal punishment assigned to it, is no less than death: the same punishment that belonged to murder, and greater than was inflicted for theft. And if hu…

First, labor to approve to God and your own souls, that you are indeed Gods people particularly; you are his people in a way of outward profession, and to men you do approve yourselves, so far as we hope you are Gods people, but you must approve yourselves to God, and to your co…

As love provokes a husband to do his wife what good he can, so hatred, to do her what mischief he can. Moses notes a man's hatred of his wife to be a cause of much mischief: for the nearer, and dearer any persons be, the more violent will that hatred be which is fastened on them…

Under the Law if a man met a woman and lay with her, if she consented she died, but if she cried out she was innocent and acquitted. So if when Satan assaults us, he obtains consent from us, we die; for sin when it is finished, brings forth death; But if we consent not, but cry…

We should yearn toward them in mercy, and put on the bowels of tenderness and compassions toward them in lending what possible relief may be to the utmost of our abilities; not only religion will enjoin this, and reason persuade, but even nature and humanity might compel and con…

6th Commandment: You shall not kill. He breaks this commandment: who bears malice to another (1 John 3:15); who is given to hastiness (Matthew 5:22); who uses inward fretting and grudging (James 3:14); who is froward of nature, hard to please (Romans 1:31); who is full of rancor…

Christiana: Aye, quoth Christiana, you would have us body and soul, for I know it is for that you are come; but we will die rather upon the spot, than to suffer ourselves to be brought into such snares as shall hazard our well-being hereafter. And with that they both shrieked ou…

When we see his countenance changed, his spirit sinking, and the whole man falling flat down, everyone would gladly take any course to help him: Truly there is not any poor Christian, but when he comes home to God, is in this very case; heart dejected, spirit cast down, much ado…