Deuteronomy 22:21
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What does Deuteronomy 22:21 mean?
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of
her
father's house
For his greater disgrace, and as a sort of punishment for his
neglect of her education, not taking care to instruct her, and
bring her up in a better manner:
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, that
she die;
which was the death this sort of adulteresses were put to; others
was by strangling, and the daughter of a priest was to be burnt;
see ( Leviticus
20:10 ) ( 21:9 ) ,
which shows that this sin was committed by her after her
espousals, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra note; or otherwise it would
have been only simple fornication, which was not punishable with
death:
because she hath wrought folly in Israel:
a sin, as all sin is folly, and especially any notorious one, as
this was; and which is aggravated by its being done in Israel,
among a people professing the true religion, and whom God had
chosen and separated from all others to be a holy people to
himself:
to play the whore in her father's house;
where she continued after her espousals, until she was taken to
the house of her husband, to consummate the: marriage; and
between the one and the other was this sin committed, and which
is another reason for her execution at the door of her father's
house:
so shalt thou put evil away from among you;
deter others from it by such an example, and remove the guilt of
it from them, which otherwise would lie upon them, if punishment
was not inflicted; the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of the
putting away of her that did the evil.
