DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 27 A command to set up stones for a remembrance, and to write the law upon them: they must build the altar of the Lord with whole stones, DEUTERONOMY 26:1. To pronounce the blessing on Gerizim, and the curse on Ebal, DEUTERONOMY 27:9. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THAT DAY, i.e. about that time, for it was not done till some days after their passing over. DAY is oft put for _time_, as hath been noted before. PLAISTER THEM WITH PLAISTER, for conveniency of writing upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW; either, 1. All the words of this Book of Deuteronomy. But that seems too large for this place. Or, 2. The blessings and curses here following. But they are mentioned as a different thing. Or, 3. The LAW properly so called, i.e. the sum and substance of the precepts or l... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT EBAL; the mount of cursing. Here the law is written, to signify that a curse was due to the violators of it, and that no man could expect justification or blessing from the works of the law, by the sentence whereof all men are justly accursed, as being all guilty of the transgression of it in... [ Continue Reading ]
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WHOLE STONES; i.e. not hewed or polished.... [ Continue Reading ]
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By thy solemn renewing of thy covenant with him.... [ Continue Reading ]
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OBJECT. In JOSHUA 8:33, they stood _over against Mount Gerizim_. ANSW. 1. Both are true; they who stood upon the one mount, stood over against the other. 2. These words may be rendered _beside_ or _near to_ (as the Hebrew _al_ oft signifies) Mount _Gerizim_, which might be over against it. _To bles... [ Continue Reading ]
TO CURSE; he saith to bless the people, DEUTERONOMY 27:12, but here only _to curse_, not expressing whom, either because he was loth to mention the people as objects of the curse; or because he presumed and hoped that though some particular persons might deserve the curse, yet the generality of the... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LEVITES, i.e. some of the Levites, to wit, the priests, WHICH BARE THE ARK, as it is expressed, JOSHUA 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood upon Mount Gerizim, DEUTERONOMY 27:12; but these stood in the valley between Gerizim and Ebal, looking towards the one or the other mountain as they pron... [ Continue Reading ]
Under this particular he understands all the gross violations of the first table, as under the following branches he comprehends all other sins against the second table, as is manifest from hence, that there are other sins, not here mentioned, which are as sinful as these, and will as certainly expo... [ Continue Reading ]
SETTETH LIGHT; or, _despiseth_ in his heart; or _reproacheth_ or _curseth_, to wit, secretly, as before; for if the fact was notorious, it was punished with death, LEVITICUS 20:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, designedly, to defraud his neighbour, or enlarge his own portion.... [ Continue Reading ]
That misleadeth simple souls, giving them pernicious counsel, either for this life or for the next.... [ Continue Reading ]
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SMITETH, i.e. killeth, as that word is oft used.... [ Continue Reading ]
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CONFIRMETH NOT, i.e. performeth not; for he that transgresseth doth in some sort destroy and make void the law of God, as to the main end for which it was given, even to the regulation of his life and actions, and as far as lies in him disannuls the authority and force of God's law.... [ Continue Reading ]