an eye for an eye] Exodus 21:24. Leviticus 24:20. Deuteronomy 19:21. Our Saviours answer intimates, that the Jewish teachers taught, That a private man might revenge his own cause, so the revenge did not exceed the wrong: and that he that took nothing away from others, did not sinne, though he did neither give nor lend. The first our Saviour condemns, verse 30, 40. The second, verse 42.