...exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn.] 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not...

...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,...

...exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not...

...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,...

...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...

...— " It is from this book, chap. xxv. ver. 4, they have taken the phrase, and applied it to tithing, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn ; and that this might not escape observation, they have noted it in the table of contents at the head...

...frisk and canter round till the corn is trampled out of the ear. This is termed tramping out ; — a practice as old as the time of Moses, at least, as...from the 25th chapter of Deuteronomy : — ' Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.'' In spite of the obvious objections to so laborious...