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Interpreters, Not Inventors
Commentators emphasize that the authority of the priests and judges was not to create new laws, but to interpret and apply God's existing written Law. Their role was to 'teach' and 'show' what the Scriptures required. This establishes the supremacy of the written Word over human authorities, a principle that extends to the Church's role as a 'witness and keeper of Holy Writ.'
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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 17:11
17th Century
Pastor
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
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For they were not to make any new law, but to …
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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…