John Gill's Exposition on John 8:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They say unto him, Master, etc.] They applied to him in a handsome and respectful manner, the better to cover their ill design: this woman was taken in adultery; by two persons at least, who could be witnesses of it; otherwise the accusation was not legal; (see <051915> Deuteronomy 19:15); though in the case of a wife suspected of adultery, they admitted a single witness as valid f364: in the very act; or “in the theft itself”, for adultery is a theft; it is an unlawful use of another’s property; see this word used in the same sense, in Heliodor, l. 1. sect. 11.

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