...nothing that breatheth : But thou shalt utterly destroy them : [namely,] the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD 18 thy G.od hath commanded thee : That they teach you not to • do after all their abominations, which...

...The labour of the ministry is certainly alluded to in that precept relating to the threshing floor, thou shalt not muzzle. the ox when he treadeth out the corn: for the apostle seems to wonder how any could be so absurd as to suppose that God considered nothing...

...in the patriarchal age, and such as was used in Greece in Homer's time. — Deuteronomy cxxv. 4. " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." Instead of thrashing out the corn with flails, as with us, oxen, in yokes, are led over the floor....

...is evident from many places in the Epistles, where they write to their converts, " it is written, ' thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn ;" and Paul tells them, that they must not think from this place, that God takes care for oxen, " for,...

...nothing that breatheth : 17 But thou shall ullerly deslroy them ; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and...Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee : 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which ihey have done unto their gods...

...consideration of their bodily labour. Under the old testament, God extended his care even to brute animals : ' Thou shalt not muzzle the ox, when he treadeth out the corn :'* ' Thou shalt not tie up his mouth while, with his feet, he is threshing out that corn for thy use...

...twenty-fifth chapter of the same Book, (Deuteronomy,) at the fourth verse, we have this precept: " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." The tenderness of this precept is remarkable. Amongst the Jews it was customary, for the most part,...

...that breatheth : 1 7 But thou shalt utterly destroy them ; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, 18 That "they teach you not to do J ,"*••?•*• after all their abominations, which they k m....

...sanction of reason only : it has the express countenance of the law of Moses. Is it not written there, " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn" ?* Was this, do you imagine, said for the sake of oxen only, or had it not a farther and more general...

...nothing that breatheth. But thou shalt utterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and...the Jebusites, as the LORD thy GOD hath commanded thee1. In these verses Moses directs the Israelites how they were to behave towards the cities of their...