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John Gill's Exposition on John 8:5
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should, be stoned, etc.] Not in (<032010>Leviticus 20:10); for though according to the law there, an adulteress, one that was a married woman, and so an adulterer, that was a married man, were to be put to death; yet the death was not stoning, but strangling; for it is a rule with the Jews f365, that where death is simply mentioned (without restraining it to any particular kind) strangling is intended, and which rule they apply to this law: and accordingly in their Misna, or oral law, one that lies with another man’s wife, is reckoned among those that are to be strangled f366: Kimchi indeed says f367, that adulteresses, according to the law, are to be stoned with stones; but then this must be understood of such as are betrothed, but not married; and such a person, Moses has commanded in the law, to be stoned, (<052223>Deuteronomy 22:23,24). And with this agree the traditions of the Jews f368 ; “a daughter of Israel must be stoned, who is hawçn alw hswra, “betrothed, but not married”.” And such an one we must believe this woman was; she was betrothed to a man, but not married to him, and therefore to be stoned: the Jews f369 have also a saying, that “if all adulterers were punished with stoning, according to the law, the stones would be consumed; but they would not be consumed;” adultery was so common with that people: but what sayest thou? dost thou agree with Moses, or not?
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