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CHEEK.—The seat of health and beauty (Son_1:10; Son_5:13). To be smitten on the cheek was the climax of insult and violence. That the command in Mat_5:39 is not to be interpreted literally is shown by Christ’s own protest in Joh_18:23.
C. W. Emmet