9097. 'He shall surely repay ox for ox' means restoration to the full. This is clear from the meaning of 'repaying' as restoring, to the full being meant by 'surely repaying'; and from the meaning of 'ox' as an affection in the natural, dealt with above in 9065.
9097a 'And the dead one shall be his' means for the injuring affection. This is clear from the meaning of 'the dead one' - the dead ox - as an affection for evil; for 'that which is dead' means evil and falsity, in keeping with what has been stated above in 9089. The nature of the things contained in the internal sense of this verse may be deduced from the explanation above in 9094.
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