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Strictly speaking something to be worn on the forehead and, as the passages say, between the eyes. The deliverance of Israel from Egypt and the law were to be constantly before them as a token upon their hand and frontlets between their eyes. Exodus 13:16; Deuteronomy 6:8; Deuteronomy 11:18 . It is also said they were to lay the words up in their hearts, so it seems evident that being worn as frontlets was meant in a figurative sense. It was to be ever before them that they were a redeemed people. In the N.T. we find that it was taken literally, and the articles worn were called PHYLACTERIES, q, v.

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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Frontlet'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​mbd/​f/frontlet.html. 1897.
 
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