If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, Ver. 1. _If there arise among you a prophet._] A public deceiver, that shall boldly obtrude upon you his erroneous opinions for divine oracles, seeking to drag disciples after him, Act 20:29 such as of l... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Ver. 2. _And the sign or the wonder come to pass._] For so it may happen by divine permission, for the exposing and shame of hypocrites; as when... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ver. 3. _Thou shalt not hearken._] Heretics have their pythanology, their good words and fair sp... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. Ver. 4. _Ye shall walk after the Lord._] A special antidote against apostasy from the truth, 2Pe 3:17-18 whereas those that have "put away a good conscien... [ Continue Reading ]
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk... [ Continue Reading ]
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Ver. 6. _Thy friend, which is as thine own soul.... [ Continue Reading ]
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Ver. 9. _Kill him,_] _i.e., _ Deliver him up to the magistrate to be killed; for he bears not the sword in vain, like St Paul in a glass window, or George on a signpost... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Ver. 10. _To thrust thee away._] By force, not of arms, but of arguments; as the Valentinians, _Qui prius pers... [ Continue Reading ]
If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, Ver. 12. _If thou shalt hear say._] Rumours are not always to be credited, nor always to be contemned.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 13:13 [Certain] men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; Ver. 13. _Children of Belial._] Renegade are the worst of men. See 1 John 2:19. Rabshakeh is held... [ Continue Reading ]