Holy Scripture
Deuteronomy 25:2
A church father on this verse
“From the second consideration comes forth that fruit of justice which consists in fleeing evil, that is, by means of distinguishing judgments. No one, indeed, wants to reap cockle or tares, for as it is said in Deuteronomy: "According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be." Thus the consid…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.
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1And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and the judges judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:
— Deuteronomy 25:2 —
3And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him with more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.
4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.