This book is called Deuteronomy, that is, the other law. For this is what Moses himself calls it in Deut. 17:18 ff, where he commands the one who would be king in Israel to take this other law from the Levites and read it every day, and in Deut. 31:10 ff he commands that it be read before all Israel for seven years at a time, when the year of Jubilee is celebrated, at the Feast of Tabernacles, in the place the Lord would have chosen.
But it is called the other, not because it is different from the one given on Mount Sinai, but because it has been repeated anew in a new covenant through the ministry of Moses before those who have the
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Therefore this book is a short epitome [of the books] of Moses and a summa of the whole law and the wisdom of the people of Israel, in which, with omission of that which concerns the Levites and the priests, only that is taught which is necessary for the people and the common people to know. And if you want to call this booklet really for our use, you can rightly call it an exceedingly rich and quite excellent interpretation of the holy ten commandments. If you know these, you will not lack anything that is necessary for the understanding of them.
It is necessary for the people to know the ten commandments. For it teaches this people to live rightly according to the Ten Commandments, both spiritually and physically, and orders the inner realm of the conscience, at the same time also the worldly rule concerning
The first is the way in which the goods are presented, and the second is the way in which the ceremonies are performed with divine fairness and wisdom, so that in the whole area of life there is nothing that is not ordered in the wisest and cheapest way.