John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 22:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou shalt make thee fringes, etc.] Though a different word is here used from that in (<041538>Numbers 15:38), yet the same things are intended, and Onkelos translates both by one and the same word, and which is no other than a corruption of the Greek word used in (<402305>Matthew 23:5). Though there have been some, whom Aben Ezra takes notice of, who supposed that this is a law by itself, and to be observed in the night, as that in (<041538>Numbers 15:38) was in the day; but these he warmly opposes, and calls them liars: upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself; upon the four skirts of the uppermost vesture, called Talith; (see Gill on “<041538>Numbers 15:38”).

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