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Interpreters, Not Inventors
Commentators stress that the high court's authority came from interpreting God's existing written Law, not from creating new rules. Their role was to 'show' and 'teach' what the Law said. This establishes the principle that all spiritual authority is ultimately subject to God's revealed Word, a concept that extends to the Church's relationship with the Bible today.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 17:8–13
18th Century
Theologian
The cases in question were those that the lower judges felt unable to decide satisfactorily, and so they referred them to their superiors ().
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Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 17:8–12
19th Century
Bishop
Deuteronomy 17:8–20. THE SUPREMACY IN ISRAEL OF THE WRITTEN LAW OF GOD.
If there arise a matter too…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 17:10
17th Century
Pastor
And you shall do according to the sentence which they of that
place which the Lord shall choose shall sh…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 17:8–13
17th Century
Minister
Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment did not have the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wi…