AND TO DO. No "and" in Hebrew text, but it is read in some codices with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. THIS DAY. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26. ABOVE ALL NATIONS. See Deuteronomy 26:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE BLESSINGS. Figure of speech _Hypotyposis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED. Figure of speech _Anaphora._ App-6. "Blessed" six times. Compare note on "Cursed", Deuteronomy 27:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BASKET. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject) for its contents. STORE. kneading-troughs, put for the dough in them.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMEST IN. Compare Psalms 121:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
STOREHOUSES. barns. Hebrew. _'aSamaritan Pentateuch_ Occurs only here and Proverbs 3:10. SETTEST THINE HAND. lettest thine hand go forth. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for all that is wrought by it. App-6. HAND. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Samaritan Pentateuch,... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. Peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN GOODS. for good; or, in that which is good. THY GROUND. thy soil. IN THE LAND. on the soil. Hebrew. _adamah_.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEASON. Compare Deuteronomy 11:14. HAND. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hands". LEND. Compare Deuteronomy 15:6 and Proverbs 22:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEAD, AND NOT THE TAIL. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6) for great emphasis. ABOVE... AND NOT BENEATH. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ See note above.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO ASIDE. Compare Deuteronomy 17:11; Deuteronomy 17:20; Proverbs 4:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
STATUTES. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1. THESE CURSES. Figure of speech _Hypotyposis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
PESTILENCE. Probably true Oriental plague. LAND. soil. Hebrew. _'adamah._... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSUMPTION. Probably phthisis. FEVER. Probably. continued fever of some kind. INFLAMMATION. Probably the rigor and heat of malarial intermittent fever. EXTREME BURNING. Probably prickly-heat.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL CAUSE. Note the fulfilment of verses: Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:37; Deuteronomy 28:46, Deu 25:48, Deu 25:49, Deu 25:50, Deu 25:52, Deu 25:62, reaching down to the present day.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY CARCASE. Septuagint _hoi nekroi,_ with article, denoting corpses as distinct from the people who are dead. UNTO ALL FOWLS. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "for the bird". FRAY. frighten (Old English).... [ Continue Reading ]
BOTCH. elephantiasis. EMERODS. Old English spelling of modern Hemorrhoids. or "piles". Written "posteriors" in Hebrew text, but read "tumours" by way of Figure of speech _Euphemism._ SCAB. aggravated psoriasis. ITCH. prurigo.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIE WITH. Hebrew. _Euphemism_ for "ravish".... [ Continue Reading ]
MIGHT. power. Hebrew. _'el._ App-4. HAND. Some codices, with three early printed editions and Syriac, read plural, "hands".... [ Continue Reading ]
LABOURS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for the result or fruit of them. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
NATIONS. peoples. Compare 1 Kings 9:8; Psalms 44:13; Psalms 44:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOCUST. Hebrew. _'arbeh._ Used of the Egyptian plague. Exodus 10:4, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
COASTS. borders, or confines.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOCUST. grasshopper. Hebrew. _zelazal,_ from noise of its wings. CONSUME. Hebrew possess.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERY HIGH. Hebrew "high, high". Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. VERY LOW. Hebrew "low, low". Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. Compare the Figure of speech Isaiah 26:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
STATUTES. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVER. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Whole). App-6. The whole of time put for. part of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
YOKE OF IRON. Put by Figure of speech for. heavy yoke or. grievous bondage.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEE. The judgments that follow are for "the Jew first", but also for the Gentile. Compare Isaiah 13:9; Romans 2:7. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE. Hebrew. strong of face: "strong" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for boldness or fierceness. Compare Isaiah 5:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ See App-27. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac, read "or new wine".... [ Continue Reading ]
EAT. Compare Jeremiah 19:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADVENTURE. Old English idiom for "venture to go".... [ Continue Reading ]
WRITTEN. See note on Exodus 17:14. THIS BOOK. See App-47, and Compare Deuteronomy 28:61 below. NAME. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for Him who bears it. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOOK OF THIS LAW. this book of the law. Compare Deuteronomy 28:58; Deuteronomy 29:21; Deuteronomy 30:10; 2 Kings 22:13, and App-47.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL PEOPLE. all kinds of peoples. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus).... [ Continue Reading ]
MIND. Hebrew. _nephesh,_ soul. App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR. Hebrew. _Homonym_: _pahad_, to fear, here and Job 23:15. but. rejoice, Isaiah 60:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOULD GOD. Figure of speech _Eu_. _h_ e. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
INTO EGYPT. So Hosea 8:13; Hosea 9:3. May be put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ for servitude. SHIPS. Second occurrence in O.T. See Genesis 49:13. SOLD. put up for sale. BUY YOU. This is the end of Moses' fifth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:6.... [ Continue Reading ]