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Radical Kindness to Enemies
Commentators emphasize that this law was radical. While helping a friend was assumed, the command to actively rescue and return an enemy's property was revolutionary. Scholars see this as a precursor to Jesus's command to 'love your enemies,' requiring active benevolence even when it's inconvenient.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 23:4–5
18th Century
Theologian
So far was the spirit of the law from encouraging personal revenge that it would not allow a man to neglect an opportunity of saving his enemy from…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 23:1–19
19th Century
Bishop
The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…
John Calvin
On Exodus 23:4
16th Century
Theologian
If you meet your enemy’s ox. From these two passages, it is very clear that he who abstains from doing evil is not therefore guiltless bef…
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John Gill
On Exodus 23:4
17th Century
Pastor
If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray
Or any other beast, as the Samaritan version adds; for these are…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 23:1–9
17th Century
Minister
In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Everything in it is suited to the desired and avowed…