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Joh 8:5. Λιθάζειν, to stone) [D and the best versions read λιθάζειν, instead of λιθοβολεῖσθαι]. Either this woman was betrothed, or else the expression of the Scribes and Pharisees is abbreviated, with this sense: Moses ordered, that adulteresses should be visited with capital punishment; Deu 22:22, etc., “If a man be found lying with a woman married, then they shall both die;-If a damsel-be betrothed, and a man lie with her, then-ye shall stone them with stones,” etc.; and our ancestors [elders] have defined that punishment to be stoning. See Grot. on this passage.-οὖν, therefore) This particle exhibits their question as more framed to entrap Him, than if they had openly said, but.