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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 29:12 - 29:12
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thou shouldest: Deu 5:2-3; Exo 19:5-6; Jos 24:25; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12-15
enter: Heb. pass, This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder. The contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder (Gen 15:10). St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.
into his oath: Deu 29:14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Neh 10:28-29