SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:21
Y no perdonará tu ojo; vida por vida, ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:21
Verse 21. Life-for life, eye for eye, &c.] The operation of such a law as this must have been very salutary: if a man prized his own members, he would naturally avoid injuring those of others. It is a pity that this law were not still in force: it would certainly prevent many of those savage acts which now both disgrace and injure society. I speak this in reference to law generally, and the provision that should be made to prevent and punish ferocious and malevolent offenses. A Christian may always act on the plan of forgiving injuries; and where the public peace and safety may not be affected, he should do so; but if law did not make a provision for the safety of the community by enactment against the profligate, civil society would soon be destroyed.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And thine eye shall not pity , etc.] The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges, who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but pronounce a righteous sentence on him, and see it executed, in proportion to the crime, and that according to the law of retaliation: but life shall go for life ; in such a case where the life of a person must have gone, if the falsehood of the testimony had not been discovered, the false witness must suffer death; in other cases, where a member would have been lost, or the price of it paid for, the same penalty was to be inflicted: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot ; that is, the price of an eye an eye, etc. (see Exodus 21:23,24 Leviticus 24:19,20).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-21 - Sentence should never be passed upon the testimony of one witnes alone. A false witness should suffer the same punishment which he sought to have inflicted upon the person he accused. Nor could any la be more just. Let all Christians not only be cautious in bearin witness in public, but be careful not to join in private slanders; an let all whose consciences accuse them of crime, without delay flee for refuge to the hope set before them in Jesus Christ __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולא 3808 תחוס 2347 עינך 5869 נפשׁ 5315 בנפשׁ 5315 עין 5869 בעין 5869 שׁן 8127 בשׁן 8127 יד 3027 ביד 3027 רגל 7272 ברגל׃ 7272
