...the custom in Palestine we have abundant evidence. It was one of the ordinances of the Mosaic law, " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox, when he treadeth out the corn."* References to this usage are numerous in the prophets : " Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and...

...Him among the heathens, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. s. LUKE. DEUT. xxv. 4. — Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. PROV. xiv. 4. — Where no oxen are, the crib is clean : but much increase is by the strength of the...

...The labour of the ministry is certainly alluded to in that precept relating to the threshing floor, " thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn b :" for the Apostle seems to wonder how any could be so absurd as to suppose that God considered nothing...

...death for the fathers : but every man shall be put to death for his own sin," 2 Kings xiv. 6. — " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox, when he treadeth out the corn," Deut. xxv. 4. " For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that...

...JERICHO. — ILLUSTRATION OF PSALM Ixv. 13. — AGRICULTURAL SCENE IN GEORGIA. DEUTERONOMY xxv. 4. " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." [1 COR. ix. 9.] JUDGES iii. 31. " Shamgar, the son of Anath,...slew of the Philistines six hundred...

...such a course of justice to the labourer. In the book of Deuteronomy (chap. xxv. 4) it is written, " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox, when he treadeth out the corn." Was it to be supposed, that this command had reference merely to the animal which was used in threshing...

...strength, which would render the draught irregular, and oppress both animals. Another injunction is, " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." The first idea suggested by this passage is, that the operation of threshing was effected simply by...

...in Hebrew. The word translated muzzle occurs only here, but its verbal root is used in Deut. xxv. 4, thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn, and in Ezek. xxxix. 11, where it evidently means to stop, either the nose or the way. The noun therefore...

...the threshing sledges armed with teeth," mentioned by Isaiah. In no instance are the animals muzzled; "thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn ; " but they linger to pick up a scanty mouthful as they are urged on by the boys and young girls,...

...harnessed to a rude box on which a man sat, and the animal now and then stopped to rest, and eat.^" Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." 4 1 Jer.. xxxviii. 7. 2 Acts x.!). 2 Mark xiii. 15. 4 Dent. xxv. 4. I found that the box was furnished...