Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 21:36
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
36. and the dead beast shall be his ] as v. 34.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ox for ox; an ox of equal value with that slain ox, or the price and worth of it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,…. If it is a plain case, and a thing well known in the neighbourhood, and there are witnesses enough to testify it, that it has yesterday, and for two or three days running, pushed with his horns men and cattle, as they have come in his way, [See comments on Ex 21:29]
and his owner hath not kept him in; took no care to prevent his doing mischief by putting him into a barn or out house, or into an enclosure, where he could do no damage to any:
he shall surely pay ox for ox; that is, he shall give as good an ox to him, whose ox has been killed by his, as that was, or pay him the full worth and value of it: and the dead shall be his own; shall not be divided as in the preceding case, but shall be the proprietor’s wholly, that is, the sufferer’s; because the owner of the vicious ox took no care of him, though it was well known he was mischievous, for which negligence he was punished this way.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
REFLECTIONS
WHAT a holy, pure, and undefiled religion is that which carries with it evidences of its divine origin and authority, in attending to the most minute circumstances of what is right and just. And what a gracious, merciful, compassionate, and ever-attentive God to the happiness of his creation, must the Lord our God be, who thus enjoins a system of laws, the very observance of which promotes universal welfare. Oh! my God, dispose my heart by thy grace to works of love and tenderness, both to man and beast. Do thou enable me to put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. And may the peace of God so rule in my heart, that I may follow peace with all men.
Reader! let us not close the Chapter, without first asking grace and wisdom to discern the outlines of the Lord Jesus in it, as the voluntary servant of his Father, who, for the love he bore to him, and to us his captive wife and children, cheerfully consented to have his ears opened and would not go out free, until he had accomplished all the work to which he was called, and what he had graciously undertaken. Oh! thou precious God of my salvation, thou who, though rich, yet for my sake didst become poor; and though in the form of God, and with whom it was no robbery to be equal with God, yet didst make thyself of no reputation, arid didst take upon thee the form of a servant; mercifully grant, that the same mind may be in me which was so strikingly displayed by thyself: may it be the language of my soul, ‘I love my Lord, I love my Master, I love his service, in it I would dwell: I will not go out free, but I will abide in it forever.’
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
Ver. 36. Ox for ox. ] These were those “right judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments.” Neh 9:13
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 21:29