Charles Ellicott Commentary Deuteronomy 28:56

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:56

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:56

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter," — Deuteronomy 28:56 (ASV)

The tender and delicate woman. —This was fulfilled to the very letter in the case of Mary of Beth-ezob in the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. The story is told with horrible minuteness by Josephus, and again by Eusebius in his Church History. The secrecy of the deed was one of its horrors.