OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 22:28

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“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

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Verse 28. Gods. Judges, priests, and so forth Josephus and Philo say, we must not speak ill of strange gods, lest the Gentiles should take occasion to blaspheme the true God, and that we may be farther removed from the danger of taking the name of God in vain, and losing that respect which we owe to it.

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