Study 1 6 From The Book of
Deuteronomy is: Deuteronomy 22 and 23
These laws are connected mainly with the sixth and seventh commandments.
1.
22:1-21. In what ways do these
laws safeguard life, property and reputation, and this put into operation the
sixth commandment and the law of love to one’s neighbour?
2.
22:13-30. How do these laws uphold the principle of
chastity implicit in the seventh commandment? How do the laws and customs of
our contemporary society compare?
3.
23: 1-25. What steps were to be taken to
maintain the purity of the congregation and thus of the worship of God. How is
this applied in the New Testament to the Church on earth and to Heaven itself?
Cf. 1 Cor. 5; Rev. 21:27, and see study 13.
Notes
1.
22:5. The distinction of the
sexes, even in outward appearance, ought to be strictly maintained.
2.
22:9-11. Applied spiritually,
these law forbid the association of things morally incompatible; cf. 2 Cor.
6:14-16
3.
22:14, 17. ‘The tokens of
virginity’: i.e., the sheet, which became stained with blood on the first
coitus.
4.
23:15, 16. The reference
appears to be a slave fleeing form a foreign country, and taking refuge in a
city of Israel.
