User talk:JohnWittle

Dec 03 2014 Vandalism Warning
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"Wings take dream" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wings take dream. Since you had some involvement with the Wings take dream redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Hog Farm (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Castle Doctrine, citation of Exodus 22:2 - 3
Hi Jesse, I'm doing research on the castle doctrine. I saw that you entered a variant of Exodus 22:2 - 3 which reads, "If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, the thief owes no blood-debt to the home-defender; but if the thief lives, he owes a blood-debt to the home-defender and must make restitution."

Can you tell me where you found this translation/interpretation of Exodus? I can't find it anywhere!

I also looked up Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 22 on biblegateway.com, and it reads differently. "4. If a thief broke a house in the night, and was killed in the doing of it, his blood was upon his own head, and should not be required at the hand of him that shed it, Exod. 22:2. As he that does an unlawful act bears the blame of the mischief that follows to others, so likewise of that which follows to himself. A man’s house is his castle, and God’s law, as well as man’s, sets a guard upon it; he that assaults it does so at his peril. Yet, if it was in the day-time that the thief was killed, he that killed him must be accountable for it (Exod. 22:3), unless it was in the necessary defence of his own life. Note, We ought to be tender of the lives even of bad men; the magistrate must afford us redress, and we must not avenge ourselves." Do you have any info on the history of English readings of Exodus 22:2 - 3? Mako.Nagasawa.1972 (talk) 20:42, 11 April 2024 (UTC)