-(Corporal punishment by stripes) -Prescribed in the Mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication Leviticus 19:20; Deuteronomy 22:18 -Prescribed for other offenses Deuteronomy 25:2 -40 Stripes was the maximum number Deuteronomy 25:3 -Fatal Job 9:23 -Of servants could be avenged Exodus 21:20 -Foretold by Jesus as a persecution of future Christians Matthew 10:17 -Of children .See CHILDREN, CORRECTION OF PUNISHMEMT -INSTANCES OF .Of Jesus Matthew 20:19; 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1 .Of Paul and Silas Acts 16:23 .Of Paul Acts 21:32; 22:24; II Corinthians 11:24, 25 .Of Sosthenes Acts 18:17 -FIGURATIVE .Of the oppressions of rulers I Kings 12:11 .Of the evil tongue Job 5:21 .See ASSAULT AND BATTERY
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