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.

But ordinarily their joy was mixed and allayed with a respect to temporal things. See (Leviticus 23:39, 40, 41; Deuteronomy 22:11, 12, 18; Chapter 16:11, 27). This was the end of their annual festivals.

They condemned a stubborn son to death (Deuteronomy 21:19). They chastened a man who had spoken falsely of his wife, that he found her not a virgin (Deuteronomy 22:15, 16, 18). Answer: first, if it should be granted, that the Elders spoken of in these places, were civil Magistra…

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…

[in non-Latin alphabet] has respect only to Age, and signifies any one married, or unmarried, a Virgin, or one deflowered, so she be young. [in non-Latin alphabet] also is used for one corrupted (Deuteronomy 22:23, 24) as also for a Widow (Joel 1:8). So that by this word, a Virg…

This about the borders of their garments, was an after institution, yet because of its answerableness to this, we may add it in this place. To this purpose, God gives his command (Numbers 15:38, 39, 40): Speak to the Children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes,…

2. That the blood of beasts and birds killed to be eaten, be covered with earth or dust (Leviticus 17:23). 3. That the mother be left free from the nest, when the young ones are taken (Deuteronomy 22:6). 4. That the signs of clean and unclean beasts be diligently observed (Levit…

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…

Let us but look into the Scriptures for the violation of other commands of God, as in the 6th, 7th and 8th Commandments, and we shall find that where the higher degrees and violations had greater punishments, the others went not scot-free. For example, when adultery was punished…

2. THESIS. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament in many places set forth and command to ask for, follow after, walk in that one good way, to strive and contend earnestly for that one faith, to hold fast the truth, to serve God only; and on the contrary reproves, prohibits…

(1 Corinthians 11:14) 2. The like shift is that which is used to decline the stroke of (Deuteronomy 22) against stage-plays, where the man that puts on woman's apparel is said to be an abomination to the Lord. A fearful thunderbolt.

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…

'Tis reported of the Stork (that chaste creature) that it confines itself to its own nest; and if any of the Storks leaving his own mate, joins with any other, the rest fall upon him, and pluck his feathers from him. God would have the adulterer put to death (Deuteronomy 22:22).…

The Devill had rather play at small game then not to game: if he cannot damn a man by keeping him under the power of sin, he will terrifie him by troubling him with the guilt of sin. Answ. 5 Lastly, Consider this, that the co[•]fessing & contesting with corruptions, is in the ac…

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…

And to the performance of this, not only reason persuades us, but religion binds us, and pity moves us. See what the Lord says by Moses, if a man see his neighbor's ox or donkey fall into distress by the way the Lord commanded to ease him and succor him, indeed to lay all busine…

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…

This rule is not ceremonial, but grounded upon the law of nature, and common honesty. Deuteronomy 22:5: The woman shall not wear that which pertains to the man, neither shall a man put on women's raiment: for all that do so, are abomination to the Lord your God. Secondly, our ap…