Exodus 21:28–32
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that prides itself on its sophistication, but which is, in reality, profoundly simplistic. Our generation wants morality to be a matter of bumper stickers and hashtags. We want justice to be a feeling, a sentiment, an outburst of indignation on social media. But the law of God is not like that. The law of God is granular, specific, and intensely practical. It deals with real-world problems, with stray livestock, with property boundaries, and with personal responsibility. What this means is that God does not give us an exhaustive, multi-volume regulatory code that anticipates every conceivable scenario. This is what King Alfred did when he laid the foundations for the common law tradition that we have inherited. He took the laws of God, including passages like this one, and made them the law of the land.