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Deuteronomy 24:1
英文原文
In this and the next chapter certain particular rights and duties, domestic, social, and civil, are treated. The cases brought forward have often no definite connection, and seem selected in order to illustrate the application of the great principles of the Law in certain important events and circumstances.
These four verses contain only one sentence, and should be rendered thus: If a man hath taken a wife, etc., and given her a bill of divorcement and Deuteronomy 24:2 if she has departed out of his house and become another man's wife; and Deuteronomy 24:3 if the latter husband hates her, then Deuteronomy 24:4 her former husband, etc.
Moses neither institutes nor enjoins divorce. The exact spirit of the passage is given in our Lord's words to the Jews', "Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives" Matthew 19:8. Not only does the original institution of marriage as recorded by Moses Genesis 2:24 set forth the perpetuity of the bond, but the verses before us plainly intimate that divorce, while tolerated for the time, contravenes the order of nature and of God. The divorced woman who marries again is "defiled" Deuteronomy 24:4, and is grouped in this particular with the adulteress (compare Leviticus 18:20). Our Lord then was speaking according to the spirit of the law of Moses when he declared, "Whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery" Matthew 19:9. He was speaking too not less according to the mind of the prophets (compare Malachi 2:14-16). But Moses could not absolutely put an end to a practice which was traditional, and common to the Jews with other Oriental nations. His aim is therefore to regulate and thus to mitigate an evil which he could not extirpate.
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Deuteronomy 24:6
比較 Exodus 22:25-26。
英文原文
Compare Exodus 22:25-26.
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Deuteronomy 24:7
比較 Deuteronomy 21:14 及 Exodus 21:16。
英文原文
Compare Deuteronomy 21:14; and Exodus 21:16.
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Deuteronomy 24:10
參 Exodus 22:25-27。
英文原文
Compare Exodus 22:25-27.
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Deuteronomy 24:13
就是你的義——參 Deuteronomy 6:25 註釋。
英文原文
Righteousness unto thee - Compare Deuteronomy 6:25 note.
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Deuteronomy 24:16
這是向世上審判官提出的警戒。在其他東方民族中，罪犯的家人通常連坐其刑罰（比較斯 9:13-14）。在以色列卻不可如此；比較邊註所引的參考經文。
英文原文
A caution addressed to earthly judges. Among other Oriental nations the family of a criminal was commonly involved in his punishment (compare Esther 9:13-14). In Israel it was not to be so; compare marginal references.
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Deuteronomy 24:17
比較邊註所引的參考經文。這些體恤之行所給出的動機，都是同一個（申 24:18；申 24:22）。
英文原文
Compare the marginal references. The motive assigned for these various acts of consideration is one and the same Deuteronomy 24:18, Deuteronomy 24:22.
在本章與下一章裡，論到若干具體的權利與義務，涉及家庭、社會與民事。所舉的案例彼此之間往往沒有明確的關聯，似乎是為了舉例說明律法的大原則如何在某些重要的事件與境況中應用而選取的。
這四節原文只是一句話，當譯作：「人若娶了妻……又給她休書，Deuteronomy 24:2 她若離開他的家、成了別人的妻；Deuteronomy 24:3 後夫若恨惡她，那麼 Deuteronomy 24:4 她的前夫……」
摩西既沒有設立休妻之制，也沒有命令休妻。本段確切的精神，見於我們主對猶太人所說的話：「摩西因為你們的心硬，許你們休妻」（Matthew 19:8）。不僅摩西所記婚姻最初的設立（Genesis 2:24）表明這聯合的永恆性，我們眼前的這幾節也清楚暗示：休妻雖一時受容忍，卻違背自然與神的秩序。再嫁的被休婦人是「玷污」了的（Deuteronomy 24:4），在這一點上她與犯姦淫的婦人同列一類（比較 Leviticus 18:20）。因此，我們的主宣告「娶那被休的婦人，也是犯姦淫了」（Matthew 19:9），乃是照著摩西律法的精意說話。祂也照樣按著眾先知的心意說話（比較 Malachi 2:14-16）。然而，摩西不能徹底廢除一種相沿已久、且為猶太人與其他東方民族所共有的做法。因此他的目的是加以規範，從而減輕這無法根除的弊害。