 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Bible and law - 1853 - 652 pages
...like," technically called the " lex talionis." It is thus expressed in the 21st chapter of Exodus : " Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth...for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."* It is admitted, that, as a law of private vengeance, none could be better fitted to destroy the peace... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Jewish law - 1853 - 672 pages
...like," technically called the " lex talionis." It is thus expressed in the 21st chapter of Exodus : " Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth...for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."* It is admitted, that, as a law of private vengeance, none could be better fitted to destroy the peace... | |
 | 1853 - 158 pages
...resemblance to the Jewish perversion of the Divine statute — "If any mischief follow, then thou shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,...for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."* These savages rigidly exact the literal penalty. If in hostile conflict between one tribe or family... | |
 | Theology - 1853 - 880 pages
...blood. Here we find a principle of great severity. It is the sanction given to the law of retaliation: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand...for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." Ex. 21: 23—25. This our Reformer designates as " a part of that savage and monstrous lex talionis,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Jews - 1853 - 660 pages
...crimes, was the most just that could be conceived. It was what has been called, "the law of retaliation." "Life for life ; eye for eye ; tooth for tooth ; hand...foot for foot; burning for burning ; wound for wound ; strife for strife." But if a man deprived a servant of his eye or his tooth, he was to be deprived... | |
 | 1853 - 764 pages
...determine. And if 24 any mischief follow, then thou shalt give ' mo for life, * eye for eye, tooth for 25 he LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land 17 whither thou goest to possess it. But if thin 28 ' And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it 27 perish ; he shall... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 630 pages
...it death to strike or to curse father or mother, •§> 14, 15, gives an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, strife for strife, § 19 ; sells the thief to repay his theft, <§> 24 ; obliges the fornicator to... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - United States - 1854 - 892 pages
...life ; eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." So in Exodus xxi. 23-25 : " And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life...burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe ;" and v. 28 : the ox that gores a man shall be stoned. So in Leviticus xxiv. 17-22 : " And he that... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...hand for hand, foot for foot." So in Exodus xxi. 23-25: "And if any mischief follow, then thou shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,...for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe;" and v. 28 : the ox that gores a man shall be stoned. So in Leviticus xxiv. 17-22 : " And he that killeth... | |
 | John Brown - 1854 - 660 pages
...a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him."" " Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."" " And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and... | |
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And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 
