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Deuteronomy 27:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The first instruction respects the setting up of pillars on which the Law was to be inscribed. Such a mode of publishing laws or edicts was common in ancient times. Pillars of stone or metal, on which laws were inscribed, are frequently mentioned by the classical writers.

Lysias quotes a law from such a pillar in the Areopagus at Athens ('Eratosth.,' 31, 12); at Eleusis there were pillars on which laws were inscribed (Pollux, 10, 97); Plato speaks of pillars set up in the market-place, on which were laws for the regulation of traffic; and Polybius even uses the word 'pillar' ( στήλη) as synonymous with "law" or "conditions of treaty".

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