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A Representative Law
Commentators like John Calvin and John Gill explain that this specific prohibition is not an isolated rule but serves as a powerful, representative example. It acts as a "single heading" or a "short memorandum" to remind the Israelites of all the detailed laws against incest found in Leviticus 18, ensuring that the prohibition of one form reinforces the prohibition of all.
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Deuteronomy
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16th Century
Theologian
A man shall not take his father’s wife. Since Moses does not refer here to any other kinds of incest, but speaks only of that with a stepm…
17th Century
Pastor
A man shall not take his father's wife
Not marry her, whether his own mother, or a stepmother; or even, as Aben Ezra…
17th Century
Minister
These and similar regulations might have been necessary then, and yet it is not necessary that we scrupulously examine them. The laws relate to the…