To: average joe who wrote (23100 ) 3/18/2012 11:08:56 AM From: Solon Respond to 11 "If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity." I love reading Matthew Henry's commentaries on the whole bible! It is (to me) like reading "Landover" or "The Onion"-- but these scribes are deadly serious in their self centered belief in being chosen by Christ! They take these primitive, ignorant, and ugly old words and dress them in solemn ritual and self righteous glorification. And from my perspective, it is the most perfect (although unintended) SATIRE!! studylight.org Deuteronomy 25:11,12 A woman could not do it unless she were perfectly lost to all virtue and honour. 2. The occasion is such as might in part excuse it; it was to help her husband out of the hands of one that was too hard for him. Now if the doing of it in a passion, and with such a good intention, was to be so severely punished, much more when it was done wantonly and in lust. 3. The punishment was that her hand should be cut off; and the magistrates must not pretend to be more merciful than God: Thy eye shall not pity her. Perhaps our Saviour alludes to this law when he commands us to cut off the right hand that offends us, or is an occasion of sin to us. (Henry does this a lot!!) Better put the greatest hardships that can be upon the body than ruin the soul for ever. Modesty is the hedge of chastity, and therefore ought to be very carefully preserved and kept up by both sexes."
