Deuteronomy 22:4 (WEB)
You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“But even the law teaches us how an enemy should be loved.If an enemy’s beast be fallen, we must raise it up.” — editor's note: Deut. xxii. 4.
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John Chrysostom
“Hear what precept Christ gave to the Jews, creeping as they did upon the earth: “If thou see,” saith He, “thine enemy’s beast of burden falling down, do not hasten by, but raise it.”” — editor's note: Exod. xxiii. 5; Deut. xxii. 4. [The citation is made very freely from the LXX. The former passage was probably in the mind of the preacher.—R.]
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