Adam Clarke Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:17

Adam Clarke Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:17 - 22:17

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:17 - 22:17

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22:1 - 22:1
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22:5 - 22:5
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22:9 - 22:9
22:10 - 22:10
22:12 - 22:12
22:15 - 22:15
22:17 - 22:17
22:22 - 22:22
22:25 - 22:25
22:30 - 22:30

They shall spread the cloth, etc. - A usage of this kind argues a roughness of manners which would ill comport with the refinement of European ideas on so delicate a subject. Attempts have been made to show that the law here is to be understood metaphorically; but they so perfectly fail to establish any thing like probability, that it would be wasting my own and my reader’s time to detail them. A custom similar to that above is observed among the Mohammedans to the present day.