Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. Ver. 1. _Therefore thou shalt love the Lord._] _Cos amoris amor. Ara amorem illius,_ saith Bernard. Not to love them that so loved us, is to be worse than a publican, m... [ Continue Reading ]
And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, Ver. 2. _And which have not seen._] “ _Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures,_ Quam quae s... [ Continue Reading ]
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and [how] the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; Ver. 4. _Hath destroyed them unto this day,_] _i.e., _ Hath so destroyed and disma... [ Continue Reading ]
And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; Ver. 5. _And what he did unto you._] A diary should be diligently kept of what God does for us, Psa 102:18 for the help of our slippery memories, and the stirring up of our dull hearts to a contention in godliness.... [ Continue Reading ]
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that [was] in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: Ver. 6. _Dathan and Abiram._] Who were Reuben... [ Continue Reading ]
And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. Ver. 9. _And that ye may prolong._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 4:40 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: Ver. 10. _And wateredst it with thy foot._] Fetching and carrying water, called therefore the water of thei... [ Continue Reading ]
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven: _Ver. ll. And drinketh water of the rain of heaven._] God crowning the year with his goodness, and his paths dropping fatness. Psa 65:10-12 In the Hebrew it is, Thy chariot-wheel... [ Continue Reading ]
A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. Ver. 12. _Which the Lord thy God careth for._] _Deus sic curat universa, quasi singula; sic singula, quasi sola._ _a_ From the beginning of the... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, Ver. 13. _And it shall come to pass._] This passage of Scripture following, the Jews read daily in the... [ Continue Reading ]
That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. Ver. 14. _That I will give you the rain._] Rain God gives to all by a providence, Act 14:17 Job 38:26 but to his Israel by virtue of... [ Continue Reading ]
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Ver. 16. _That your heart be not deceived._] Having first deceived itself; for "the heart is deceitful above all things," Jer 17:9 and may say to many, as the heart of Apollonius the... [ Continue Reading ]
And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Ver. 17. _And he shut up the heaven._] The keys of heaven, of the heart, of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. Ver. 18. _In your heart._] Yea, upon your heart, Isaiah 47:7 _; _ Isa 57:11 so as they may sink thereinto, Luk 9:44 as the best balm cas... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Ver. 19. _Teach them your children._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 6:7 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. Ver. 21. _As the days of heaven,_] _i.e., _ As long as the world standeth. Hence haply we may conceive hope of the repentance of th... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; Ver. 26. _A blessing and a curse._] With the way to either, that if ye miscarry ye may have none to blame but yourselves. For oft it falls out, that whereas "the foolishness of man perverteth his way, his heart fretteth against the Lord." Pr... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Ver. 29. _Put the blessing upon mount Gerizim._] That is, Pronounce it there. See Joshua 8:33. He... [ Continue Reading ]