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A Command to Cultivate Compassion
Multiple commentators, including Calvin and Gill, agree that this law's primary purpose was to cultivate compassion and prevent cruelty. By commanding kindness towards a vulnerable mother bird, God was teaching His people to develop a spirit of humanity. This principle was meant to shape their character and extend to how they treated one another.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 22:6–8
18th Century
Theologian
These precepts are designed to cultivate a spirit of humanity. Compare Deuteronomy 25:4; Leviticus 22:28; and [Reference 1 Corinthians 9…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 22:6
19th Century
Bishop
If a bird’s nest. —On this precept there is a remarkable comment in the Talmud (Kiddushin, p. 39, b). Rabbi Akib…
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 22:6
16th Century
Theologian
Since by this precept God instructed His people in the law of kindness, it is a supplement to the Sixth Commandment.
Indeed, regard was give…
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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 22:6
17th Century
Pastor
If a bird's nest chance to be before you in any tree, or on the ground
Which are the usual places in which birds b…
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 22:5–12
17th Century
Minister
God's providence extends to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do likewise, so that even in these small matters we may live in the fear of the …