Exo_21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Ver. 24. Eye for eye.] How the Pharisees had wrested that text. {See Trapp on "Mat_5:39"} This kind of law, in use among heathens also, Aristotle calls
ôï áíôéðåðïíèïò
and was given against private revenge.