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Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise, therefore, the foreskin of your heart, said of the removal of the hardness and callousness which was indifferent to the many manifestations of God's mercy, and be no more stiff-necked, rebellious, unwilling to follow His leadership. Without this preparation of the heart, which is essentially repentance, neither true fear nor love of God is possible.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 10:16. _CIRCUMCISE - THE FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART_] A plain proof from God himself that this precept pointed out spiritual things, and that it was not the _cutting away a part of the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    On “circumcision” see Genesis 17:10. This verse points to the spiritual import of circumcision. Man is by nature “very far gone from original righteousness,” and in a state of enmity to God; by circum...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. JEHOVAH'S LOVE AND HIS REQUIREMENTS OF HIS PEOPLE CHAPTER 10:12-22 _ 1. Jehovah's delight and love (Deuteronomy 10:12)_ 2. Admonition to fear and serve Jehovah (Deuteronomy 10:16) This section i...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 10:12 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32. Resumes Moses'second address interrupted by the long didactic narrative of Deuteronomy 9:7_ b_ -...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CIRCUMCISE. Here charged as. duty. in Deuteronomy 30:6 promised as. future blessing. Compare Leviticus 26:41.Jeremiah 6:10; Acts 7:51. Circum

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations, Introductory to the Laws Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge its practical conclusions of full fear and l...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Circumcise the foreskin of your heart_ The same metaphor in Jeremiah 4:4 (cp. Deuteronomy 9:25); whether it is original to the prophet or to D is impossible to determine. In view of the style of Jere...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The form of address changes to Pl., and a qualification is made of the great statement just given. Though God has elected (for reasons of His own) to love Israel's fathers and to choose their posterit...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 202 THE ELECTING LOVE OF GOD AN INCENTIVE TO HOLINESS Deuteronomy 10:14. Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Only t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 16, 17. _CIRCUMCISE, THEREFORE, THE FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART_— The Targum of Jonathan renders this, _Cast away, therefore, the folly of your heart;_ and the LXX, _the hardness of your heart._ Cir...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (2) BY AN ABIDING LOVE (Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:1) 12 And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND I STAYED IN THE MOUNT, ACCORDING TO THE FIRST TIME, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS; AND THE LORD HEARKENED UNTO ME AT THAT TIME ALSO, AND THE LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THEE._ Moses here resumes his ad...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    See on Leviticus 19:23. 17, 18. Great as God is, He cares for the lowly: see Psalms 138:6. 'Be ye therefore merciful even as your Father is merciful.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) 1-5. The renewal of the broken covenant: see Exodus 34. 6-9. These vv are evidently a parenthesis. The death of Aaron took place thirty-eight years after the depar...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 ‘Then the *LORD spoke to me. “Cut two blocks from stone like the first ones. Also, make a...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CIRCUMCISE... YOUR HEART. — “For circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter” (Romans 2:29). The verse literally runs thus: _Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and ye w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מַלְתֶּ֕ם אֵ֖ת עָרְלַ֣ת לְבַבְכֶ֑ם וְ עָ֨ר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WHAT THE LORD REQUIRES OF US Deuteronomy 10:1 The second writing of the Law reminds us of the work wrought in us by the Holy Spirit. When first we hear the Law, we are condemned; but when we have rep...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In recounting the story of the writing of the Law the second time, Moses distinctly affirmed that these tables too were written by God Himself. This was the culminating word in all he had said to them...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (h) Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. (h) Cut off all your evil affections, (Jeremiah 4:4)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Circumcise. The Hebrews esteem circumcision as a mark of their greatest glory. All who had it not were looked upon as profane. They call the ears, mind, and heart uncircumcised, when they would not he...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Paul explains the gospel circumcision, to which the Jewish rite all along had a reference, see Romans 2:29; Colossians 2:11; Galatians 6:15....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._Circumcise, therefore. _From this inference it appears wherefore mention was made of this adoption,. viz., that the _Jews _should more earnestly and solemnly serve God, whom they had known from ex...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CIRCUMCISE THEREFORE THE FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART,.... Content not yourselves with, nor put your confidence in outward circumcision of the flesh, but be concerned for the circumcision of the heart; for...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. Ver. 16. _Circumcise therefore._] _Deus iubendo iuvat._ Set about this work in God's strength, and pray that the heaven ma...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Circumcise, therefore, your heart_ Rest not in your bodily circumcision, or in any mere external observances or duties; but seriously set upon that substantial and most important circumcision of the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Gods mercie in restoring the two Tables, 6 in continuing the Priesthood, 8 in separating the tribe of Leui, 10 in hearkening vnto Moses his suit for the people. 12.An exhortation vnto obedience....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW (vs.1-11) While Moses had spoken of events later than the giving of the law insist on the moral lessons of Israel's disobedience through the wilderness (ch.9:22-23), he r...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Rest not in your bodily circumcision, but seriously set upon that substantial work which is signified and designed thereby: cleanse your hearts from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, whic...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood: and I will write on the tables the words that w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 10:16 circumcise H4135 (H8804) foreskin H6190 heart H3824 stiff-necked H6203 H7185 (H8686) Circumcise -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEIR REQUIRED RESPONSE IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT HE IS, IS NOW EXPANDED ON (DEUTERONOMY 10:16). Deuteronomy 10:16 ‘ Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your (of ye) heart, and be no more stiffnecked.'...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Further warnings and exhortation and reminders of God's dealings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Eleazar. CONCLUSION: Since we have received so many mercies from God, it becomes us to enqu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 10:6. _Mosera: there Aaron died._ In Numbers 20:28; Numbers 33:38, we read that Aaron died in mount Hor, which was seven days' journey from Moseroth. This place is full of difficulties. Wh...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He chose. .. you above all people._ ELECTION AND HOLINESS I. In setting forth election, I must have you observe, first of all, its extraordinary singularity. God has chosen to Himself a people whom...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 10:16 CIRCUMCISE... YOUR HEART. Here, circumcision symbolizes removing the stubbornness that prevents the heart from loving God. Compare Ex

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 10:1. That time. The order for the ark was given before the apostasy of the people, _cf_. Exodus 25, and the tables were put into it after the dedication of the tabernacle...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION RENEWED EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE. DEUTERONOMY 10:1 _Moses_'_ intercession and its results_. DEUTERONOMY 10:1 At that time.

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter ten He continues of their failures during the wilderness experiences. And he's reminding them of the failure at the time when God had given to him the law on the two tables of stone. And ho...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Colossians 2:11; Deuteronomy 30:6; Deuteronomy 31:27; Deuteronomy 9:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Circumcise — Rest not in your bodily circumcision, but seriously set upon that substantial work which is signified thereby: cleanse your hearts from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, fitl...

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