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receive profit for the loan of it, whatever harm befel the cattle the owner must stand to the loss of: but if the owner was so kind to the borrower as to lend it to him gratis, and put such a confidence in him as to trust it from under his own eye, then, if any harm happened, the borrower must make it good. Let us learn hence to be very careful not to abuse any thing that is lent us; it is not only unjust, but base and disingenuous, inasmuch as it is rendering evil for good; we should much rather choose to lose ourselves than that any should sustain loss by their kindness to us. Alas, master! for it was borrowed, 2Ki 6:5.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be
a hired thing, it came for his hire.
Laws of Human Relations
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her,
he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
A law that he who debauched a young woman should be obliged to marry her, Ex 22:16,17. If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her (De 22:23,24); but the law here mentioned respects her as single. But, if the father refused her to him, he was to give satisfaction in money for the injury and disgrace he had done her. This law puts an honour upon marriage and shows likewise how improper a thing it is that children should marry without their parents' consent: even here, where the divine law appointed the marriage, both as a punishment to him that had done wrong and a recompence to her that had suffered wrong, yet there was an express reservation for the father's power; if he denied his consent, it must be no marriage.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.
A law which makes witchcraft a capital crime, Ex 22:18. Witchcraft not only gives that honour to the devil which is due to God alone, but bids defiance to the divine Providence, wages war with God's government, and puts his work into the devil's hand, expecting him to do good and evil, and so making him indeed the god of this world; justly therefore was