And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
All Commentaries on Exodus 21:15 Go To Exodus 21
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Striketh, even though death should not ensue. But some require a grevious wound, and that the son should be twice admonished, Deuteronomy xxi. 18. Parricide seemed a crime so shocking and unnatural, that neither Moses nor Solon made any express law against it.
