Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the terms or conditions upon which God hath made, that is renewed his covenant with you. The covenant was but one in substance, but various in the time and manner of its dispensation.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the terms or conditions upon which God hath made, that is renewed his covenant with you. The covenant was but one in substance, but various in the time and manner of its dispensation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet the Lord — That is, you have perceived and seen them with the eyes of your body, but not with your minds and hearts; you have not yet learned rightly to understand the word and works of God, so as to know them for your good, and to make a right use of them, and to comply with them: which he expr... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have not eaten bread — Common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread. Neither drank wine — But only water out of the rock. The Lord — Omnipotent and all — sufficient for your provision without the help of any creatures, and your God in coven... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy stranger — Such strangers as had embraced their religion: all sorts of persons, yea, even the meanest of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Into covenant and into his oath — Into covenant, confirmed by a solemn oath.... [ Continue Reading ]
That he may establish thee — Here is the summary of that covenant whereof Moses was the mediator, and in the covenant relation between God and them, all the precepts and promises of the covenant are included. That they should be established for a people to him, to fear, love, obey, and be devoted to... [ Continue Reading ]
So also — With your posterity. For so the covenant was made at first with Abraham and his seed, by which as God engaged himself to continue the blessing of Abraham upon his posterity, so he also engaged them to the same duties which were required of Abraham. So it is even among men, where a king con... [ Continue Reading ]
Egypt — Where you have seen their idolatries, and learned too much of them, as the golden calf shewed, and therefore have need to renew your covenant with God; where also we were in dreadful bondage whence God alone hath delivered us, to whom therefore we are deeply obliged, and have all reason to r... [ Continue Reading ]
A root — An evil heart inclining you to such cursed idolatry, and bringing forth bitter fruits.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of this curse — Of that oath where — in he swore he would keep covenant with God, and that with a curse pronounced against himself if he did not perform it. Bless himself — Flatter himself in his own eyes, with vain hopes, as if God did not mind such things, and either could not, or would not punish... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall smoke — Shall burn and break forth with flame and smoke as it were from a furnace.... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto evil — Unto some peculiar and exemplary plague; he will make him a monument of his displeasure to the whole land.... [ Continue Reading ]
Salt and burning — Is burnt up and made barren, as with brimstone and salt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whom God had not given to them — For their worship, but hath divided them unto all nations, for their use and service. So he speaks here of the sun and moon and stars, which were the principal gods worshipped by the neighbouring nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
The secret things — Having mentioned the amazing judgments of God upon the whole land and people of Israel, and foreseeing the utter extirpation which would come upon them for their wickedness, he breaks out into this pathetic exclamation, either to bridle their curiosity, who would be apt to enquir... [ Continue Reading ]