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- Deuteronomy
- Chapter 10
- Verse 19
Deuteronomy 10:19
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Love ye therefore the stranger,.... Because the Lord loves him; and another reason follows, particularly binding on the Israelites:
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt; and therefore should…
Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Love ye the stranger This carries the principle further than it is expressed in Exo 22:21, and even almost as far as Christ carried it. Cp. P, Lev 19:33.
for ye were strangers So Exo 22:21 (editorial)…
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