Exodus 22:1 (WEB)
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Chrysostom
“…still doeth an injustice, and so doeth an injustice, as by adding fourfold scarcely to do away the charge against himself, and this under the old covenant;he that is not stealing, but taking by violence, and not even giving to him that is robbed, but instead of him to another; nor yet giving fourfold, but not so…” — editor's note: Exod. xxii. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Et cure furem jusserit reddere “quadruplum,” oportuit vos furl aliquid etiam adhere.” — editor's note: Ex. xxii. 1.
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