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• If the one who is in the wrong deserves a flogging, the judge must have him laid on the ground and flogged in his presence, the number of strokes proportionate to his offence. (Deuteronomy 25, 2)

• He may impose forty strokes but no more; otherwise, by the infliction of more, serious injury may be caused and your brother be humiliated before you. (Deuteronomy 25, 3)

• A reproof makes more impression on a person of understanding than a hundred strokes on a fool. (Proverbs 17, 10)

• Wounding strokes are good medicine for evil, blows have an effect on the inmost self. (Proverbs 20, 30)

• 'The servant who knows what his master wants, but has got nothing ready and done nothing in accord with those wishes, will be given a great many strokes of the lash. (Luke 12, 47)

• The one who did not know, but has acted in such a way that he deserves a beating, will be given fewer strokes. When someone is given a great deal, a great deal will be demanded of that person; when someone is entrusted with a great deal, of that person even more will be expected. (Luke 12, 48)