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John 8:4

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

They say unto him, Master,.... They applied to him in a handsome and respectful manner, the better to cover their ill design:this woman was taken in adultery; by two persons at least, who could be witnesses of it; otherwise the accusation was not legal; see De 19:15; though in the case of a wife suspected of adultery, they admitted a single witness as valid :in the very act; or "in the theft itself", for adultery is a theft; it is an unlawful use of another's property; see this word used in the same sense, in Heliodor, l.

1. sect. 11. Maimon. Hilchot Eduth, c. 5. sect.

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