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It is true that only two transgressions are here specified for which their perpetrators are to be pursued and over taken by the curse namely, perjury and theft; but these two are most probably mentioned as samples and sum maries of the whole. For the expression " everyone that sweareth " must be understood as explained in the 4th verse, as " swearing falsely by the Name of Jehovah" and is thus a violation of the Third Command, which is found in the first table of the law which summarises man's duty to God; and " everyone that stealeth " breaks the Eighth Commandment, which is found on the second table, which summarises man's duty to his neighbour. So that Baumgarten and Hengstenberg are not far wrong when they write that one side of the roll contained the judgments of God against the transgressors of the Command, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might"; and on the other the judgments against the transgressors of the Command, " Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Against all such the megillah, with its awful contents, " gpeth forth" being set in motion (as we see from the 4th verse) by " Jehovah of hosts "; and is therefore seen " fly ing " that is, travelling rapidly over the whole land, and