It is also written in your law Literally, But in the law also, your law, it is written. -Your" is very emphatic; -the Law about which you profess to be so jealous." Comp. -Thou art called a Jew, and restest on the Law" (Romans 2:17).

the testimony of two men is true Better, the witness of two, &c. Not so much a quotation as a reference to Deuteronomy 19:15; Deuteronomy 17:6. Note that the Law speaks of -two or three witnesses:" here we have -two men." The change is not accidental, but introduces an argument à fortiori:if the testimony of two menis true, how much more the testimony of two Divine Witnesses. Comp. -If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son" (1 John 5:9).

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