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Verse Deuteronomy 30:19. See the note on the preceding verse. See
Clarke on De 30:15...
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Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded Deuteronomy
30:10; hence, Deuteronomy 30:15 life and death, good and evil, are
solemnly set before the people for their own choice; and an ea...
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26. THE DISPERSION, THE RETURN AND THE FINAL APPEAL
CHAPTER 30
_ 1. The message of hope (Deuteronomy 30:1)_
2. The final appeal (Deuteronomy 30:11)
These things, which Moses spoke into the ears of...
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DEUTERONOMY 30:11 was probably intended to close Dt.
Deuteronomy 30:11 is applied and adapted by Paul in Romans 6-8. Prefix
to Deuteronomy 30:16 the following words found in the LXX and
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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 s...
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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 e
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_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;...
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DISCOURSE: 227
A FAITHFUL MINISTER’S APPEAL
Deuteronomy 30:19. _I call heaven and earth to record this day against
you, that I hare set before you life and death, blessing and cursing!
therefore choo...
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_VER._ 19. _I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO RECORD_— See chap.
Deuteronomy 4:26 Deuteronomy 32:1.
REFLECTIONS.—Warm and urgent when such important concerns were at
stake, he seeks to fix some abiding impre...
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5. FINAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO CHOOSE THE PATH OF BLESSING RATHER THAN THE
CURSE (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil; 16 in that I command thee...
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_SEE, I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE THIS DAY LIFE AND GOOD, AND DEATH AND
EVIL;_
See, I have set before thee this day life ... and death - i:e., the
alternative of a good and happy, or a disobedient and mis...
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PROMISES AND APPEALS
A promise of restoration, even after abandonment and rejection, is
held out, on condition of repentance; and an appeal is made to the
people to choos the way of obedience and lif...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 30
V1 ‘All these *blessings and *curses, that I have told you about,
will happen to you. You wi...
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הַעִידֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַ יֹּום֮ אֶת ־הַ
שָּׁמַ֣י
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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THE SUPREME CHOICE
Deuteronomy 30:11
The immediate purpose of this passage is to encourage the people by
reminding them that all things needful for a holy life are within
their reach. Paul refers to...
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Continuing his discourse, Moses uttered words thrilling at first with
tenderness and urgent appeal.
In the first ten verses of the chapter we have the long look ahead of
love. He seems to have seen t...
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I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore (o)
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
(o) That is...
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_I call. He begins his canticle in the same emphatical manner, (chap.
xxii.) as Isaias does his prophecy. (Haydock)_...
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Reader! while you and I attend to the close of Moses' Sermon, and hear
the solemn appeal which the animated preacher makes to heaven, that he
had executed his commission, and fully discharged his duty...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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_THE WISE CHOICE_
‘Therefore choose life.’
Deuteronomy 30:19
There is one choice which we must all make; and if that choice is once
well made, it will very much secure all other choices, for the re...
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19._I call heaven and earth to record this day against you_. Though
the verb is in the past tense, it indicates a present act. It is in
order to deal with them with greater urgency that he calls heave...
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We must now dwell a little on this last point. Chapter 30 furnishes us
with an important principle. It supposes that the people have already
incurred the consequences of disobedience, and they are see...
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I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO RECORD THIS DAY AGAINST YOU,.... Either,
literally understood, the heavens above him, and the earth on which he
stood, those inanimate bodies, which are frequently called up...
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I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Ver. 19. _Life...
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_Choose life_ They shall have life that choose it: they that choose
the favour of God, and communion with him, shall have what they
choose. They that come short of life and happiness, must thank
thems...
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1 Great mercies promised vnto the repentant.
11 The Commaundement is manifest.
15 Death and life are set before them.
1 AND it shall come to passe when all these things are come vpon thee,
the bles...
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I call heaven and earth, with the inhabitants of both these spheres,
TO RECORD THIS DAY AGAINST YOU, THAT I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND
DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, THAT BOTH T...
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DEATH AND LIFE SET BEFORE ISRAEL...
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GOD'S GRACE TO THOSE WHO RETURN
(vs.1-10)
There are some (even Christians) who insist that Israel has departed
so far from God that they can never be restored. But they must ignore
chapter 30:1-10, a...
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15-20 What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep
and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and
to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads mi...
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Compare DEUTERONOMY 4:26 JOSHUA 24:27 PSALMS 1:4 ISAIAH 1:2....
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This chapter is one of very deep interest and importance. It is
prophetic, and presents to us some of "the secret things" referred to
at the close of the Preceding chapter. It unfolds some of those mo...
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Deuteronomy 30:19 call H5749 heaven H8064 earth H776 witnesses H5749
(H8689) today H3117 set H5414 (H8804)
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THE CHOICE IS PUT TO THEM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (DEUTERONOMY 30:15).
Analysis using the words of Moses:
a See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and
evil, in that I command you...
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Deuteronomy 30:19
There is one choice which we must all make; and if that choice is once
well made, it will very much secure all other choices, for the reason
why we so often choose badly is because...
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Deuteronomy 30:19
I. "I call heaven and earth to record against you," says Moses. This
was no idle rhetorical formula. The open sky over his head was the
witness and pledge of permanence, the sign tha...
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CONTENTS: The Palestinian covenant declared.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: Those shall have life who choose it. Those who come short
of life and happiness must thank themselves. They would hav...
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Deuteronomy 30:5. _The Lord thy God will bring thee into the land,_
when thou art penitent, by the marvellous munificence of Darius, and
of Cyrus his nephew. What a luminous vision of future things! T...
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_I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil._
LIFE AND GOOD, DEATH AND EVIL
1. The matter propounded. Life as the end, good as the means leading
to life; or else, life, that i...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 30:19 To CHOOSE LIFE is to choose
God himself. It is to trust in God’s grace and the changes he makes
in a person’s heart. HOLDING FAST. See...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel were rejected and exiled on account of
apostacy, but not absolutely east off for ever. If they would return
to the Lord he would turn his favour towards them again, and gather
t...
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EXPOSITION
DEUTERONOMY 30:1
Though rejected and exiled because of rebellion and apostasy, Israel
should not be absolutely or forever cast off. When dispersed among the
nations, if the people should r...
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Chapter 30.
It shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and you call
them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord...
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1 Timothy 5:21; Acts 2:39; Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1;...
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Chuse life — They shall have life that chuse it: they that chuse the
favour of God, and communion with him, shall have what they chuse.
They that come short of life and happiness, must thank themselve...