_Ye are the children of the Lord your God._ ISRAEL’S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD Moses here tells Israel-- I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishable privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall walk after the Lord your God._ WITH, BEFORE, AFTER (with Genesis 5:22; Genesis 17:1):--You see that these three fragments, in their resemblances and in their differences, are equally significant. They concur in regarding life as a walk--a metaphor which expresses continuity, so that every... [ Continue Reading ]
_If thy brother. .. entice thee._ TEMPTATION TO IDOLATRY FROM KINDRED I. It is the policy of the tempter to send his solicitations by the hand of those we love, whom we least suspect of any ill design upon us, and whom we are desirous to please, and apt to conform ourselves to. Satan tempted Adam... [ Continue Reading ]
_There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing._ DESTROY THE CURSED THING Israel must conquer idolatrous cities, and destroy all the spoil, regarding all that had been polluted by idolatry as an accursed thing to be burned with fire. Now, sin of all sorts must be treated by Christians in the same... [ Continue Reading ]