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Cursed be he who doesn`t confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.
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The Law's Perfect Standard
Commentators explain that this final curse is a comprehensive summary of God's entire law. It condemns not just the specific sins listed prior, but any failure to perfectly and continually obey all of God's commands. This includes sins of omission (failing to do good) as well as commission (doing wrong), setting an impossibly high standard for humanity.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(). The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.
(Deuteronomy 27:12,[Refe…
19th Century
Anglican
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. Rashi comments, “Here he sums up the whole Law, al…
16th Century
Protestant
Cursed is he that does not confirm. Although it was God’s purpose to summon the consciences of all people before Him, and, so that they mi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Cursed [be] he that does not confirm [all] the words of this law to do them That is, …
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