Conditions of Restoration from Exile
When Israel, scattered among the nations, returns to Jehovah and
obeys Him (Deuteronomy 30:1 f.), He will gather the nation again, even
to its furthest outcasts (Deuteronomy 30:3 f.), and will not only
restore it to its land, but work in it a full love to Himsel... [ Continue Reading ]
_all these things are come upon thee_ Deuteronomy 4:30.
_the blessing and the curse_, etc.] Deuteronomy 11:26; cp. Deuteronomy
4:8. _Blessing_as well as _curse_, because the memory that God, in His
faithfulness, had blessed them, in such times as they were obedient,
and therefore might be trusted t... [ Continue Reading ]
Expansion of Deuteronomy 4:30 _b_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_turn thy captivity_ The Heb. phrase can hardly mean this, for the
return from captivity comes later in this passage, in Deuteronomy
30:4, and such a sense is impossible in Job 42:10. Render TURN THY
FORTUNE. So Amos 9:14; Hosea 6:11; Ezekiel 16:53; Ezekiel 16:55, and
frequently in Jer.
_have compa... [ Continue Reading ]
_If_any of _thine outcasts_ quoted in Nehemiah 1:9; cp. above
Deuteronomy 30:1 (_driven_), Deuteronomy 28:64, and in another sense
Deuteronomy 22:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_will bring thee into the land_ See on Deuteronomy 6:10.
_do thee good_ Deuteronomy 8:16; Deuteronomy 28:63.
_multiply_ See on Deuteronomy 6:3 and Deuteronomy 13:17 (18).... [ Continue Reading ]
_will circumcise thine heart_ See on Deuteronomy 10:16, and in
contrast Deuteronomy 29:4; and cp. Jeremiah 31:33.
_to love_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 6:5.
_that thou mayest live_ lit. FOR THE SAKE OF THY LIFE, Deuteronomy
30:16_; Deuteronomy 30:19_, Deuteronomy 16:20, all... [ Continue Reading ]
curses] Heb. _-alôth_, Deuteronomy 29:20 f. (19 f.), _q.v._; and not
_ḳelalôth_as in Deuteronomy 30:1 and ch. 28. Because of this and
the fact that the _v_. breaks the connection between Deuteronomy
30:6_; Deuteronomy 30:8_it is probably an intrusion (Dillm.). With it
cp. Deuteronomy 7:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOU, THYSELF, _shalt_, etc.] The emphatic _thou_is necessary
after the intrusion of the previous _v_.
_return_ If this be meant in a spiritual sense, the like does not
elsewhere occur in Deut.; but is found in Isaiah 10:21; Isaiah 19:22;
Jeremiah 3:1; Jeremiah 3:7; Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 3:22... [ Continue Reading ]
See Deuteronomy 28:11; Deuteronomy 28:63.... [ Continue Reading ]
Possibly an editorial transition to the next section (so Steuern.).
_written in this book of the law_ Cp. Deuteronomy 29:20; here the text
curiously gives _written_in the sing. participle, as if quoting from
there.
_turn unto_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 30:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_This commandment Miṣwah_, see on Deuteronomy 5:31; Deuteronomy 8:1.
Here probably both the substance of the Law the enforcement of a
loyal, loving obedience to Jehovah and its various statutes and
judgements.
_which I command thee this day_ Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 27:1,
etc.
_too hard_ So in... [ Continue Reading ]
The Close of the Concluding Addresses
The commandment is not too hard nor distant, but near, articulate,
intelligible and practicable (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). Sheer life and
death, good and evil, is set before Israel. Obedience means blessing,
apostasy destruction (Deuteronomy 30:15-19 _a_). Choose... [ Continue Reading ]
The Conscience of the Law... [ Continue Reading ]
_not in heaven_ Not among the _hidden things_still with God,
Deuteronomy 29:29 (28), and requiring a mediator. God has not left men
to hunger for it; it has been mediated and heard.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Neither … beyond the sea_ Nor has Israel to search for it among
other peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
_But the word is very nigh unto thee]_So of God Himself, Deuteronomy
4:7, _q.v._, explained by what follows, _in thy mouth and in thy
heart_(cp. Deuteronomy 6:6 f., Deuteronomy 11:18 f.), articulate,
understood and familiar (especially after so much exposition of it!).
The speaker does not add that... [ Continue Reading ]
The Peroration to the Discourses
15. Cp. Jeremiah 21:8.
_set before thee this day_ Deuteronomy 4:8.
_life and good_, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 11:26: _blessing and curse_.
For _death and evil_cp. Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 8:19, etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
The constr. of the Heb. is faulty but may be restored from the LXX
thus: _If thou hearken to the commandment of the Lord thy God which I
command thee_(Dillm.). For Deuteronomy 30:16 _a_see on Deuteronomy
13:4 (5): _his commandments_(wanting in LXX), Deuteronomy 4:2;
_statutes and judgements_, Deuter... [ Continue Reading ]
_But if thine heart turn away_ Deuteronomy 29:18 (17); for _drawn
away_see Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 13:13 (14); for _worship and
serve_see on Deuteronomy 4:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_denounce_ An archaism for _announce_. The Heb. simply means
_declare_, Deuteronomy 17:9; Deuteronomy 17:11, R.V. _shew_and
_tell_of a judgement, i.e. _make it public_; Deuteronomy 26:3 R.V.
_profess_.
_unto you_ Change to the Pl. address confirmed by Sam. LXX; it is
striking that the following phra... [ Continue Reading ]
_I call heaven and earth_, etc.] As in Deuteronomy 4:26.
_set before thee life and death_ See on Deuteronomy 30:15.
_choose life_ In Deut. only here; but cp. Joshua 24:15; Isaiah 7:15
(choose the good). On _that thou mayest live_see Deuteronomy 30:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_love … obey … cleave_ See on Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:20;
Deuteronomy 13:4 (5).
_for_ THAT _is thy life_, etc.] Variant from Deuteronomy 4:1;
Deuteronomy 4:40, etc.
_sware_ See on Deuteronomy 1:8.... [ Continue Reading ]