5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; …
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: …
O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The Exod. 21:1 is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following chapters, some of them relating to the religious worship of God, but most of them relating to matters between man and man. Their government being purely a Theocracy, that which in other states is to be settled by human prudence was directed among them by a divine appointment, so that the constitution of their g…
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