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Deuteronomy 19:21

And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
All Commentaries on Deuteronomy 19:21 Go To Deuteronomy 19

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Pity. This regarded the judge, who must act with impartiality. (Worthington) The law admits of no mitigation, but inflicts the same punishment on the calumniating witness, as he intended should fall upon his brother. (Lyranus;) Some Rabbins (apud Fag.) pretend that this was executed with rigour, only when the innocent had sustained some real injury. See Exodus xxi. 24. (Calmet)
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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