출애굽기 19:23의 유대 사상

I would say that the plain meaning of the verse is that bribery obtains even when the judge's intent is to render a truthful judgment — and this for two reasons: the first, it is to be feared that the bribe will blind his intellect, though he assumes himself to be rendering a true judgment. This is the intent of "for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise." The second: "and compromises righteous judgments." That is, even if the judge renders a true judgment it will appear to him who has lost the case that the judge perverted justice because of the bribe that he took. For one of the benefits of justice is that even he who loses his case is not sad about it, as stated in Sanhedrin (7a): "One who is walking along the road after beth-din has taken his cloak from him, should do so singing. Shmuel said to R. Yehudah: 'There is an explicit verse to this effect (Exodus 19:23): "And all this people shall go to their place in peace."'" This is an additional reason that the Torah forbade taking a bribe though one's intent is to judge truly: the fact that the bribe causes a righteous judgment to be seen in a negative light. "Viyesalef" ["and compromises"], in this context, then, is to be understood in the manner of (Proverbs 21:12): "Because the righteous one knows the house of the wicked, he construes ["mesalef"] the deeds of the wicked as evil." That is, because the righteous one understands and knows the deeds of the wicked, he construes their acts as evil even if, superficially, they seem to be good. Here, too, the bribe causes a righteous judgment to be seen in a bad light, to be construed negatively by him who loses the case. "Viyesalef" here is used transitively (though it is generally used intransitively), just as "yeaver" ["blinds"], for added forcefulness.