Phylacteries

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things to be especially observed
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


totaphoth. (See EARRINGS.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Phylacteries. See Frontlets.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


called by the Jews תפלין , are little scrolls of parchment, in which are written certain sentences of the law, enclosed in leather cases, and bound with thongs on the forehead and on the left arm. They are called in Greek φυλακτηρια, from φυλαττω, custodio, either because they were supposed to preserve the law in memory, or rather because they were looked upon as a kind of amulets or charms to keep them from danger. The making and wearing these phylacteries, as the Jews still do in their private devotions, is owing to a misinterpretation of those texts, on which they ground the practice, namely, God's commanding them “to bind the law for a sign on their hands, and to let it be as frontlets between their eyes,” &c, Deu_6:8. The command ought doubtless to be understood metaphorically, as a charge to remember it, to meditate upon it, to have it as it were continually before their eyes, and to conduct their lives by it; as when Solomon says, concerning the commandments of God in general, “Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart,” Pro_3:1; Pro_3:3; Pro_6:21. However, the Jews understanding the precept literally, wrote out the several passages wherever it occurs, and to which it seems to refer, and bound them upon their foreheads and upon their arms. It seems the Pharisees used to “make broad their phylacteries.” This some understand of the knots of the thongs by which they were fastened, which were tied very artificially in the form of Hebrew letters; and that the pride of the Pharisees induced them to have these knots larger than ordinary, as a peculiar ornament. The Pharisees are farther said to “enlarge the borders of their garments,” τα κρασπεδα των ιματιων, Mat_23:5. These κρασπεδα were the ציצית , the fringes which the Jews are commanded to wear upon the borders of their garments, Num_15:38-39. The Targum of Onkelos calls them כרוספדין , which has so near an affinity with the Greek word κρασπεδον, that there is no doubt but it signifies the same thing; which is, therefore, an evidence that the κρασπεδα were the ציצית . These were worn by our Saviour, as appears from the following passage: “Behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment,” κρασπεδον του ιματιου, Mat_9:20. Again: the inhabitants of Gennesaret are said to have brought unto him their diseased, and to have “besought him, that they might only touch the hem of his garment,” κρασπεδον του ιματιου, Mat_14:36. Κρασπεδον του ιματιου is, in both these passages, very improperly translated the “hem of his garment.” It should have been rendered “the fringe.” The Pharisees are censured by our Saviour for enlarging these fringes of their garments, which we may suppose they did partly from pride, and partly from hypocrisy, as pretending thereby an extraordinary regard for the precepts of the law. It is reported by Jerom, as quoted by Godwin, that they used to have fringes extravagantly long; sticking thorns in them, that, by pricking their legs as they walked, they might put them in mind of the law. See FRONTLETS.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


When God told the people of Israel through Moses that they were to bind his laws upon their hands and between their eyes, he was no doubt emphasizing that his people were to live in the constant remembrance of his law. Not only their actions but also their thoughts were to be governed by the law of God (Exo_13:9; Exo_13:16; Deu_6:8; Deu_11:18).

Taking God’s instructions literally, Israelites of later times wrote selected commands of the law on small strips of cloth or parchment, placed these strips in small leather boxes called phylacteries, and bound the phylacteries on to their arms or foreheads. Jesus condemned those Pharisees and scribes who wore extra large phylacteries to try to impress people with their apparent devotion to God (Mat_23:5).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.





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