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The meaning of Deuteronomy in the Bible
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)
In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim . It is not easy to say when it was divided into five books. This was probably first done by the Greek translators of the book, whom the Vulgate follows. The fifth of these books was called by the Greeks Deuteronomion, i.e., the second law, hence our name Deuteronomy, or a second statement of the laws already promulgated. The Jews designated the book by the two first Hebrew words that occur, _'Elle haddabharim_, i.e., "These are the words." They divided it into eleven parshioth . In the English Bible it contains thirty-four chapters. The uniform tradition both of the Jewish and the Christian Church down to recent times. The book professes to have been written by Moses (1:1; 29:1; 31:1,9-11, etc.), and was obviously intended to be accepted as his work. The incontrovertible testimony of our Lord and his apostles (Matthew 19:7,8; Mark 10:3,4; John 5:46,47; Acts 3:22; 7:37; Romans 10:19) establishes the same conclusion. The frequent references to it in the later books of the canon (Joshua 8:31; I Kings 2:9; 2Kings 14:6; 2Chr 23:18; 25:4; 34:14; Ezra 3:2; 7:6; Nehemiah 8:1; Daniel 9:11,13) prove its antiquity; and (5) the archaisms found in it are in harmony with the age in which Moses lived. Its style and allusions are also strikingly consistent with the circumstances and position of Moses and of the people at that time. This body of positive evidence cannot be set aside by the conjectures and reasonings of modern critics, who contended that the book was somewhat like a forgery, introduced among the Jews some seven or eight centuries after the Exodus.
See more on the meaning of Deuteronomy in the Bible:
Deuteronomy {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Deuteronomy {Hitchcock's Bible Name}
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