Ye shall not add unto the word … neither … diminish from it So Deuteronomy 12:32 [Hebrews 13:1], cp. Jeremiah 26:2; Revelation 22:18 f. That the Law was tampered with in Josiah's day is implied in Jeremiah 8:8, the false pen of the scribes has wrought falsehood. Our verse and Deuteronomy 12:32 have been interpreted as if the deuteronomic law gave itself forth as the full, final letter of the Divine Revelation. This is not so: cp. its promise of a new prophet like to Moses, Deuteronomy 18:15 ff.

which I command you Again the participle, am about to command. Sam. and Luc. add this day.

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