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Eye For Eye

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Retaliation.

"Eye for eye" is the Mosaic principle of proportional retaliation — the lex talionis that limits punishment to the measure of the injury — which Jesus then sets aside for his disciples in favor of non-retaliation and love of enemies. Scripture treats the principle alongside the broader history of personal and tribal vengeance taken across both testaments.

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