Deuteronomy 6:1
THESE ARE. Hebrew "this is". COMMANDMENTS. See note on Deuteronomy 5:31. STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. GO. Hebrew pass over.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE. Hebrew "this is". COMMANDMENTS. See note on Deuteronomy 5:31. STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. GO. Hebrew pass over.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR... OBSERVE. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), used for emphasis: May be Englished _"Hear._.. _Heed"._ AS. according as. THE LAND, &C. Compare Genesis 17:8; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3.Numbers 13:27; Numbers 13:14; Numbers 13:8;... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR. In the Hebrew text this word (_sham'a)_ has the last letter majuscular (i.e. larger than the others) as also the last letter of the last word (_'echad_), to emphasize "the first and great commandment" (Matthew 22:38; Mark 12:29; Mark 12:30). These two letters taken together make 'ed. "a witnes... [ Continue Reading ]
LOVE. The Law founded on love. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS DAY. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEACH. Hebrew "sharpen" or "whet". rub them in by repetition.... [ Continue Reading ]
BIND. Still practiced by orthodox Jews. HAND. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, read plural "hands". AS. for. FRONTLETS. Greek. phylacteries. guards or watch-posts.... [ Continue Reading ]
WRITE. See note on Exodus 17:4 and App-47. POSTS. door-posts. Hebrew. _mezuza._ Used to-day, for cases containing the Phylactery.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABRAHAM, &C. Note inclusion of all three patriarchs. See note on Deuteronomy 1:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD. Jehovah. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, add "thy God". BONDAGE. Hebrew bondmen, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for their bondage.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT FEAR. Read this verse as follows, and preserve the emphasis on "Him", and the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton,_ App-6: "Jehovah, thy Elohim, Him shalt thou reverence, And Him shalt thou serve, And by His Name shalt thou swear. ... [ Continue Reading ]
DESTROY. cut off: exterminate. Hebrew. _shamad._ EARTH. Hebrew. _'adamah,_ ground, cultivated land.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE, &C. Quoted by the Lord to Satan, and changed to sing, by adaptation. See Matthew 4:7. TEMPT. try: by questioning Jehovah's presence. This was the point in Matthew 4:7. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN TIME TO COME. Hebrew "to-morrow". Definite date put for indefinite.... [ Continue Reading ]
SORE. Hebrew. _r'a =_ inflicted evil, not moral. Compare Jeremiah 18:11.Amos 3:6, and see note on Isaiah 45:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALWAYS. for all time. Hebrew all the days.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. This is superseded by Romans 10:4; Romans 10:5.Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:12. That true then: this true now. No discrepancy if the Dispensations are rightly divided according to 2 Timothy 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]