![]() ![]() If a bird's nest chance to be before thee-This is a beautiful instance of the humanizing spirit of the Mosaic law, in checking a tendency to wanton destructiveness and encouraging a spirit of kind and compassionate tenderness to the tiniest creatures. They were properly forbidden for the adoption of the habiliments of the one sex by the other is an outrage on decency, obliterates the distinctions of nature by fostering softness and effeminacy in the man, impudence and boldness in the woman as well as levity and hypocrisy in both and, in short, it opens the door to an influx of so many evils that all who wear the dress of another sex are pronounced "an abomination unto the Lord."Ħ, 7. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment-Though disguises were assumed at certain times in heathen temples, it is probable that a reference was made to unbecoming levities practised in common life. THE SEX TO BE DISTINGUISHED BY APPAREL.ĥ. ![]() Indifference or dissimulation in the circumstances supposed would not only be cruelty to the dumb animals, but a violation of the common rights of humanity and therefore the dictates of natural feeling, and still more the authority of the divine law, enjoined that the lost or missing property of another should be taken care of by the finder, till a proper opportunity occurred of restoring it to the owner.ĭeuteronomy 22:5-12. The duty inculcated is an act of common justice and charity, which, while it was taught by the law of nature, was more clearly and forcibly enjoined in the law delivered by God to His people. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them, &c.-"Brother" is a term of extensive application, comprehending persons of every description not a relative, neighbor, or fellow countryman only, but any human being, known or unknown, a foreigner, and even an enemy ( Exodus 23:4 ). The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.ĭeuteronomy 22:1-4. Verses 13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. Our eye should be single, our heart simple, and our behaviour all of a piece. Even in putting on our garments, as in eating or in drinking, all must be done with a serious regard to preserve our own and others' purity in heart and actions. ![]() If we would prove ourselves to be God's people, we must have respect to his will and to his glory, and not to the vain fashions of the world. Yet the tendency of these laws, which seem little, is such, that being found among the things of God's law, they are to be accounted great things. Verses 5-12 God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, as we are under his eye and care. We know not how soon we may have occasion for help. Religion teaches us to be neighbourly, and to be ready to do all good offices to all men. We can have no property in any thing that we find. Verses 1-4 If we duly regard the golden rule of "doing to others as we would they should do unto us," many particular precepts might be omitted. ![]()
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