DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 30 A promise of gracious deliverance to the Jews upon their repentance, in future times, DEUTERONOMY 30:1. The law of God manifest and just, DEUTERONOMY 30:11. Life and death set before them, DEUTERONOMY 30:15. THE BLESSING when thou art obedient, and THE CURSE when thou becomest... [ Continue Reading ]
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TURN THY CAPTIVITY, i.e. bring back thy captives, as _captivity_ is taken, PSALMS 14:7 EPHESIANS 4:8. _Gather thee_, i.e. thy children; either spiritually such, as it is explained 1 THESSALONIANS 11:51,52; or literally such, as it is promised RO 11 $.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE LORD WILL CIRCUMCISE THINE HEART, or, _for the Lord will circumcise thine heart_, i.e. will by his word and Spirit change and purge thy heart from all thine idolatry, and superstition, and wickedness, and incline thy heart _to love him_, as it here follows. See DEUTERONOMY 10:16. And so this is... [ Continue Reading ]
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Whereas thou didst formerly receive and enjoy these mercies for thy hurt, through thy own wicked and foolish heart, when thou wast full and fat, forgetting God, and kicking against him, DEUTERONOMY 31:20, DEUTERONOMY 32:15, now thou shalt have them for thy good; thy heart shall be so changed by the... [ Continue Reading ]
This caution and condition is added to warn them that they should not receive the grace of God in vain, and to teach them that the grace of God doth not discharge man's obligation to his duty, nor excuse him for the neglect of it, and that conversion and sanctification, though it be God's work, yet... [ Continue Reading ]
He seems to speak of the law, or of that great command of loving and obeying God, mentioned here DEUTERONOMY 30:2,6,10,16, which is the sum of the law, of which yet he doth not here speak simply, or as it is in itself, but as it is mollified and accompanied with the grace of the gospel, whereby God... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HEAVEN, i.e. shut up there; but it hath been thence delivered and published in thy hearing.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER IS IT BEYOND THE SEA: the knowledge of this commandment is not to be fetched from far distant places, to which divers of the wise heathens travelled for their wisdom, but it was brought to thy very doors and ears, and declared to thee in this wilderness.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THY MOUTH; thou knowest it so well, that it is the matter of thy common discourse; thou professest thy knowledge and belief of it: or, in the months of thy priests and Levites, who are daily preaching of it, and instructing thee in it. IN THY HEART, i.e. in thy mind, (as the heart is very commonl... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFE AND GOOD, i.e. a good or a happy life; a figure called _heniaduo_: or, life, and all the blessings of life, as _good_ is oft used, as JOB 7:7 PSALMS 4:6, PSALMS 128:5 ECCLESIASTES 2:24, ECCLESIASTES 4:8 6:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
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DRAWN AWAY, either by thy own evil mind, or by the examples or persuasions of others.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Compare DEUTERONOMY 4:26 JOSHUA 24:27 PSALMS 1:4 ISAIAH 1:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE IS THY LIFE, i.e. the cause or author of thy life, as _life_ is used 1 THESSALONIANS 14:6, 1 THESSALONIANS 17:3.... [ Continue Reading ]