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Empathy from Experience
Commentators explain that this command is deeply personal, rooted in Israel's own history. God reminds them, "you know the heart of a sojourner," recalling their own fears, anxieties, and distress as oppressed strangers in Egypt. This shared memory was meant to produce genuine empathy and compassionate justice toward foreigners in their own land.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 23:6–9
18th Century
Theologian
Four precepts evidently addressed to those in authority as judges:
To do justice to the poor. Comparing Exodus 23:6, and Exodus 23:…
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 Gill
On Exodus 23:9
17th Century
Pastor
Also you shall not oppress a stranger As these were not to be vexed and oppressed in a private manner and by private men,…
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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…