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28. ἀθετήσας τις. Especially by being guilty of the sin of idolatry (Deu 17:2-7). Literally, it is “any one, on setting at nought Moses’ law.”
χωρὶς οἰκτιρμῶν. The Mosaic law pronounced on offenders an inexorable doom. “The letter killeth” (2Co 3:6).
ἐπὶ δυσὶν ἤ τρισὶν μάρτυσιν, i.e. by the testimony of at least two (Joh 8:17; 2Co 13:1). Comp. the use of ἐπὶ “on the condition of” in Heb 9:17.
ἀποθνήσκει. Lit., “dies.” Here is another of the favourite Jewish exegetical arguments a minori ad majus.