xxi. 18.

406 Deut. xxi. 20.

407 Prov. xxiii. 20.

408 Deut. xxi. 19, 20.

_ 409 I.e._, they are saved from crime by immediately depriving them of
life. This summary mode of procedure was called "the rebel's
beating." It was a kind of lynch law inflicted by the people at
once. John viii. 59.

410 As the former class of intending criminals could at once be killed,
so this latter class must be guilty of the act, and they are then
judged for it.

411 Isa. xxx. 20.

412 Isa. lx. 21.

413 Literally, outside.

414 Exod. xv. 26.

_ 415 I.e._, to meditate with the intention to mutter JEHOVAH over a
wound.

416 2 Chron. xxxiii. 13.

417 Gen. vi. 3.

418 Gen. xi. 8.

419 Gen. xiii. 13.

420 Ps. i. 5.

421 Num. xiv. 37.

422 Num. xiv. 35.

423 Ps. l. 5.

424 Num. xvi. 33.

425 1 Sam. ii. 6.

426 Deut. xxix. 28.

427 Deut. xiii. 13.

428 Deut. xiii. 15.

429 Deut. xiii. 16.

430 Deut. xiii. 17.

431 Deut. xxiv. 7.

432 Deut. xvii. 8.

433 Deut. xvii. 10.

434 Deut. xvii. 12.

435 Now called Yebna.

436 Deut. xvii. 13.

437 Deut. xviii. 19.

438 Literally, strange worship. It chiefly means the worship of the
stars and other heavenly bodies.

439 Jer. xxxiv. 5.

440 Or sugar-cane.

441 For executions.

442 For races.

443 Where harangues were delivered involving life and death.

444 Nor graves.

445 Deut. vii. 26.

446 Hadrian's mixture was balls of clay saturated with wine and taken on
military expeditions. When the soldiers wished to drink, they soaked
them in water so that it had a taste of wine, and the mud settled at
the bottom of the vessel.

447 The heart torn out of the animal when alive to be offered in
idolatrous worship.

448 A village where calves were offered in idolatry. Consequently the
rennet was forbidden, and the cheese made from their rennet was also
forbidden.

449 Sol. Song, i. 2. The question is, whether the friendship sprang from
the wine or not, and his conclusion is that as the savor is
connected with the oil, so is the friendship with the wine, and so
is the cheese connected with idolatry.

_ 450 I.e._, for legal defilement.

451 The locusts might be mixed in the basket with wine or liquor, which
would cause legal defilement.

452 The Salt Sea g