And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Ver. 29. Is one Lord] This the wiser heathens, as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle with his Ens Entium miserere mei (if that were his), acknowledged,Exodus 34:14. (εις θεος εστι μονος, Pythag. Buxtorf. Tib.) "Thou shalt worship none other God." Where the word אתר rendered other hath ר greater than ordinary, to show the greatness of the sin of serving other gods, and to set forth a difference betweeen acher, other, and echad, one God; one in three, and three in one. Hebrew Text Note