Sentences with phrase «eye for an eye»

Then there's the famous ones about instead of eye for an eye you turn the other cheek and let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

No, It wasn't eye for an eye, what I was trying to point out is about cause and effect and reason behind it.

It sounds more eye for an eye than turn the other cheek to me.

No more eye for an eye, so to speak.

This Israeli - Arab conflict seems more like a 1400 year family feud than a result of eye for an eye philosophy.

After all, the concept of an «eye for an eye» went a long way toward making early capitalists think twice about taking risks.

«That old law about «an eye for an eye» leaves everybody blind.

An eye for an eye was in force and if the slave dies then the owner could receive a death sentence.

The Quran is just as violent as the Bible is (i.e. Cain and Able, An eye for an eye, and so on).

5:38 - 41; «You have heard that it was said, «An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.»

Or will you look back and find I encouraged the hatred with my eye for an eye mentality.

Not Taliban - like punishment, an «eye for an eye».

Maybe, if you would be more tolerant, not insist on an eye for an eye, that democrat who you disdain may show you some respect.

Probably creationist don't turn to Leviticus 13 for medical advice on how to treat skin disease (leprosy); nor do they turn to Joshua 6 (Siege and fall of Jericho) for lessons in military science; nor do they turn to the staple of ancient legal science in Exodus 21:23 - 2 (lex talons «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth») for modern jurisprudence.

Violence & religion lets keep it real remember in christianity an eye for an eye?

In an era where the world around us keeps demanding an eye for an eye, and our biggest pop stars are literally singing the same tune, Christians are in a unique position to offer up something more than the flywheel of punching back twice as hard.

While I try not to subscribe to «an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth» or to descend to the lower debating tactics, I will admit that I failed on this occasion, just as the original poster did, not that that is an excuse for my behaviour.

Rabbi Jesus explains the law in Matthew 5:38 - 42» «You have heard that it was said, «AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.»

Few verses are more taken out of context than an «eye for an eye».

by doing the «eye for an eye» routine, we'd be no better than him.

The killing of the Palestinian boy was not an eye for an eye.

To the Jews, the «eye for an eye» passage had become a license for personal vengeance, a basis for a vendetta, sort of a biblical permission to have a grudge or to strike back.

Matthew [5:38] Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: [5:39] But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

An eye for an eye might apply if the actual perpetrators were killed.

The «eye for an eye» passage, and others like them was not in the strict sense a declaration that «if you take my eye, then you forfeit your own eye» rather, it was a limitation on the severity of justice.

And btw, this is mostly a Christian concept, and is not practiced in either Judaism or Islam (eye for an eye and Jihad are both religious tenets of those faiths).

The eye for an eye could also be read as a regulatory force, i.e you can't take an eye for a finger.

The «eye for an eye» scenario is presumptive of a judgment council of elders or in today's vernacular, a court, that assesses guilt or innocence of the alleged perpetrator.

While eye for an eye is crude by today's standard, it was a step in the right direction at a time when people killed others for a lesser transgression.

The va.gue notion by Palestinians that Israelis should be made to feel their pain is not an eye for an eye.

Tehran, Iran (CNN)- A woman blinded in an acid attack seven years ago said Sunday she stopped the «eye for an eye» punishment for her attacker because «such revenge is not worth it.»

An eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth, WOAH!!!

The Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible says, «The penalty shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.»