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You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
The cases in question were those that the lower judges felt unable to decide satisfactorily, and so they referred them to their superiors ().
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 17:8–20. THE SUPREMACY IN ISRAEL OF THE WRITTEN LAW OF GOD.
If there arise a matter too…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall do according to the sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall sh…
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