What Does “An Eye for an Eye” Really Mean?
Exodus 21:18-32 What Does “An Eye for An Eye” Really Mean? If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 21. We are continuing through our summer long study of the book of the covenant. That is a section of Exodus from chapter 20 to 23, and it is often called a covenant code. It gives us a public application of the moral principles which have been set forth in the Ten Commandments. In the last weeks in which we have been in this book, we have been away from it for a couple of weeks doing some other studies, but in the last three or four times we have been together in Exodus chapter 20 and 21, looking at these laws for public life in Israel, we have looked at the subjects of worship at the end of Exodus chapter 20, we have looked at the subject of slavery…