John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself." — Deuteronomy 22:12 (ASV)
You shall make yourself fringes
Though a different word is here used from that in (Numbers 15:38) , yet the same things are intended, and Onkelos translates both by one and the same word, and which is no other than a corruption of the Greek word used in (Matthew 23:5) . Though there have been some, whom Aben Ezra takes notice of, who supposed that this is a law by itself, and to be observed in the night, as that in (Numbers 15:38) was in the day; but these he warmly opposes, and calls them liars:
upon the four quarters of your vesture, with which you cover yourself ;
upon the four skirts of the uppermost vesture, called Talith; (See Gill on Numbers 15:38).