Deuteronomy 19:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Ver. 14. Thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old, &c.] Erasmus met with an adversary so silly, as to object unto him this text against the new translation of the New Testament: Quasi per terminos, voces intellexisset Spiritus Sanctus atque huius legis violatae illi postulari possent, qui mutant rerum vocabula, a Whereas by terms or "landmarks" hero are clearly meant bounds, borders, limits, whereby every man's inheritance was severed.

a Erasm., in Apologiis, p. 637.

Deuteronomy 19:14

14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.