``he that puts out his neighbour's eye must pay him the price of his eye, according to the price of a servant sold in the market, and so of all the rest for not taking away of members strictly is meant, as our doctors here interpret it '' ] This is "lex talionis", the law of retaliation, and from whence the Heathens had theirs but whether this is to be taken strictly and literally, or only for pecuniary mulcts, is a question Josephus F4 understands it in the former sense, the Jewish writers generally in the latter and so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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