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A Symbol of Holiness
Commentators explain this law was part of a larger system to ensure the visible holiness and integrity of Israel. By prohibiting those with specific physical mutilations—often associated with pagan practices or a marring of God's image—from the assembly, the law emphasized that God's people were to be whole and set apart.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 23:1
18th Century
Theologian
Compare Leviticus 21:17-24. Such persons, exhibiting a mutilation of that human nature which was made in God’s image, were rejected from the covena…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 23:1
19th Century
Bishop
The rule that a eunuch should not enter into the congregation was undoubtedly intended to prevent the Israelite rulers from making eunuchs of their…
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 23:1
16th Century
Theologian
He that is wounded.
What is delivered here concerning those who are mutilated, and who are bastards, has a similar object: to preve…
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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 23:1
17th Century
Pastor
He that is wounded in the stones
In any of them, not accidentally, but purposely; which are crushed and bruised by th…
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 23:1–8
17th Century
Minister
We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no cr…