* thou shouldest.
5:2,3 Ex 19:5,6 Jos 24:25 2Ki 11:17 2Ch 15:12-15
* enter. Heb. pass.
This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several
ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each
other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion,
were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting
parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on
those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like
manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work
against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts
of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other
people.
* into his oath.
14 2Ch 15:12-15 Ne 10:28,29
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