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“‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
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Verse 32. Aged man. Such are supposed to be possessed of wisdom and experience. The Egyptians and Lacedemonians rose up out of respect to an old man. Herod. ii. 80. The Rabbins pretend that a person ought to rise up when the old man is four cubits distant, provided he be, as he ought, a man of wisdom; for otherwise he is entitled to no honour. But this would be making inferior judges of their merit. The Chaldee, Philo, and so forth comprise those “learned in the law,” under the name of old men.
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