And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Tu ne jetteras aucun regard de pitié: oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied.
KJV
And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Pacian of Barcelona
Three Letters to Sympronianus
ear. (Acts 15:10) Why do you hesitate, Novatians, to demand an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? (Deuteronomy 19:21) To demand a life, to restore the practice of circumcision and the Sabbath? Kill thieves, stone the insolent. Don’t you read in the Gospel that the Lord spared e…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
ione reddere, et caetera hujusmodi [Note: [Col. 0255D] Exod. XXI, 23, 24 et seqq.; Levit. XXIV, 20.; Deut. XIX, 21; Matth. V, 38. V. B. August. lib. cont. Faust. c. 25. Poenam talionis non privatus quicunque, sed judex infligebat. Haec lex odiis vitandis potius quam vindictae exe…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 164 (Migne)
s mortem peccatoris, sed vitam. Vinum namque Moyses dabat, cum, «oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente (Deut. XIX, 21) ,» dicebat. Hoc autem vinum grave videtur, et ad bibendum asperum. «Dignum dilecto meo ad potandum.» Dignum, inquit, [Col. 1280C] est, vitale vinum, tam dulce, tam…
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