These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. Ver. 1. _Beside the covenant._] Which yet was also a covenant of grace, and the same with this in substance; only that... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; Ver. 2. _Moses called._] At several times it is like, these things were delivered, and not at once.... [ Continue Reading ]
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Ver. 3. _The signs and those great miracles._] None of all which wrought kindly upon them to effectual conversion, because God denied concourse and influence of his grace. Jeroboam had as great a miracle wrought... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. Ver. 4. _Yet the Lord hath not given you._] Nor is he bound to do, "but on whom he will he showeth mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth," _i.e.,_ he softeneth not. Till when, a man stands in the... [ Continue Reading ]
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Ver. 5. _Your clothes._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 8:4 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 6. _Ye have not eaten bread,_] viz., Ordinary, _see _ Deu 2:6 but manna; _et benefieium postulat officium._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do._ Ver. 9. _That ye may prosper._] Piety is the right and ready way to prosperity. Sulla, surnamed Felix, accounted it not the least part of his happiness that Metellus, surnamed Pius, was his friend. Godl... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel, Ver. 10. _Before the Lord._] Who seeth your inside also, and is _intimo vestro vobis intimior._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:_ Ver. 11. _From the hewer of thy wood._] The meanest amongst you, such as afterwards were the Gibeonites, who also by faith became covenanters, and are called Nethinims in... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; Ver. 16. _How we have dwelt._] And how hard is it to pass through Ethiopia, how much more to dwell there, and not to be discoloured! Sin is catching, and by the senses, tho... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:) Ver. 17. _A root that beareth gall_] An evil heart of unbelief, Heb 3:12 a deceitful and deceived heart, Jer 17:9 Isa 44:20 that is ever either weaving spiders' webs - _i.e., _ loving va... [ Continue Reading ]
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: Ver. 19. _When he heareth the words._] But feareth them no more than Behemoth doth the iron wea... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. Ver. 20. _The Lord will not spare him._] God cannot satisfy himself... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: Ver. 21. _And the Lord shall separate him unto evil._] Shall single him out as an object of his wrath; as the huntsman severeth out from t... [ Continue Reading ]
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; Ver. 22. _When they see the plagues._] A presumptuous offender is a... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 29:23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Ver. 23. _And bearet... [ Continue Reading ]
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them: Ver. 26. _And whom he had not given unto them._] Or, Who had not given to them any portion. For "Can the vanities of the Gentiles give rain? or can the heavens give showers?" Je... [ Continue Reading ]
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: Ver. 27. _All the curses._] This was accomplished, as is by Daniel acknowledged. Daniel 9:11 _, &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day. Ver. 28. _And cast them into another land._] Cast them with a violence, with a vengeance; - in the Hebrew the word cast hath an extraordinary large lett... [ Continue Reading ]
The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law. Ver. 29. _The secret things belong._] This is one of those sixteen places which in the Hebrew are marked with a special... [ Continue Reading ]