Deu 6:13, Isa 19:18, 45:23, 65:16, Zep 1:5, Heb 6:13 | TSK | STEP | fear. and serve him.Our Saviour quotes these words thus: "And him only [autó monó,] shalt thou serve;" from which it would appear, that the word {levaddo} was anciently in the Hebrew text, as it was in the Septuagint, Coptic, Vulgate (illi soli), and Anglo-Saxon. Dr. Kennicott argues that without the word only, the text would not have conclusive for the purpose for which our Lord advanced it. It is proper, however, to observe, that the word {levaddo} is not found in any MS. yet collated, though retained in the above versions. shalt swear.

Deuteronomy 6:13

fear.

2; 5:29; 10:12,20; 13:4; Mt 4:10; Lu 4:8

and serve him.Our Saviour quotes these words thus: "And him only [autó monó,] shalt thou serve;" from which it would appear, that the word {levaddo} was anciently in the Hebrew text, as it was in the Septuagint, Coptic, Vulgate (illi soli), and Anglo-Saxon. Dr. Kennicott argues that without the word only, the text would not have conclusive for the purpose for which our Lord advanced it. It is proper, however, to observe, that the word {levaddo} is not found in any MS. yet collated, though retained in the above versions.

shalt swear.

Le 19:12; Jos 2:12; Ps 15:4; 63:11; Isa 45:23; 65:16; Jer 4:2; 5:2,7

Jer 12:16

Isaiah 19:18

that day.

19,21; 2:11; Zec 2:11

shall five.

11:11; 27:13; Ps 68:31

speak.

Zep 3:9

language. Heb. lip.

Ge 11:1

and swear.

45:23,24; De 10:20; Ne 10:29; Jer 12:16

destruction. Heb. Heres, or, the sun.Instead of {heres,} "destruction," which is also the reading of Aquila, Theodotion, and the Syriac, fifteen MSS. and seven editions have {cheres,} "the sun;" agreeable to Symmachus, the Arabic, and Vulagte; while the Chaldee takes in both readings; and the LXX. reads [polis asedek,] "the city of righteousness," a name apparently contrived by the party of Onias, to give credit to his temple. As, however, {heres} in Arabic signifies a lion, Conrad Ikenius is of opinion that the place here mentioned is not Heliopolis, as is commonly supposed, but Leontopolis in the Heliopolitan nome, as it is termed in the letter of Onias to Ptolemy. The whole passage, from this verse to the end, contains a general intimation of the propagation of the knowledge of the true God in Egypt and Syria, under the successors of Alexander, and the early reception of the gospel in the same countries.