Hidden] RV 'hard,' lit. 'wonderful.' God's law is not unintelligible or impracticable. It is a revealed thing (see Deuteronomy 29:29). All that is essential in revelation is plain; it is within the compass of human understanding and will. St. Paul applies these words to the law of righteousness by faith: see Romans 10:6.
15-20. An earnest appeal to the people to choose the way of obedience and life.
Verse Deuteronomy 30:11. _THIS COMMANDMENT _- IS _NOT HIDDEN_] Not too _wonderful_ or difficult for thee to comprehend or perform, as the word _niphleth_ implies. _Neither is it far off _- the word o...
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...
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...
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
NOT HIDDEN. not too wonderful. Compare Romans 10:6, &c....
_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 ju...
The Conscience of the Law...
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...
DISCOURSE: 225 THE WAY OF SALVATION PLAIN AND EASY Deuteronomy 30:11. This commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou...
_VER._ 11-14. _THIS COMMANDMENT—IS NOT HIDDEN FROM THEE,_ &C.— i.e. Is not abstruse and hard to be understood, but easy to be known and comprehended: _neither is it far off;_ so that they needed not t...
4. OBEDIENCE NOT IMPOSSIBLE (Deuteronomy 30:11-14) 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldes...
_FOR THIS COMMANDMENT WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY, IT IS NOT HIDDEN FROM THEE, NEITHER IS IT FAR OFF._ For this commandment ... is not hidden ... neither ... far off. That law of loving and obeying...
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...
Deuteronomy 30:11. THE LAW OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH. (11) FOR THIS COMMANDMENT. — Heb., _Mitzvah._ This duty, this form of obedience to the law. IS NOT HIDDEN FROM THEE — _i.e.,_ not to...
כִּ֚י הַ מִּצְוָ֣ה הַ זֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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...
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...
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] (h) not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off. (h) The law is so evident that no one can pretend ignorance....
Above. Hebrew, "separated, unknown," &c. Septuagint, "too heavy." St. Paul (Romans x. 6,) adapts this to the Christian law, which is the perfection of that given by Moses. The precepts of Jesus Christ...
If we read those words with an eye to that blessed dispensation, to which the law ministered, for the law is our school-master unto CHRIST, we shall find that there is much gospel in them. It is indee...
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...
11._For this commandment, which I command thee. _This declaration is like the preceding, and tends to the same end; for Moses commends in it the Law, on account of its easiness; because God does not p...
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...
FOR THIS COMMANDMENT WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY,.... Which the Jews understand of the law, but the Apostle Paul has taught us to interpret it of the word of faith, the Gospel preached by him and ot...
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off. Ver. 11. _For this commandment._] This word of faith, Rom 10:8 that teacheth the righteousne...
_This commandment_ The great command of loving and obeying God, which is the sum of the law, of which yet he doth not here speak as it is in itself, but as it is mollified and accompanied with the gra...
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...
DEATH AND LIFE SET BEFORE ISRAEL...
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off, it could not be said to be unusually difficult, either with regard to its knowledge or its fulfil...
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...
11-14 The law is not too high for thee. It is not only known afar off; it is not confined to men of learning. It is written in thy books, made plain, so that he who runs may read it. It is in thy mou...
He seems to speak of the law, or of that great command of loving and obeying God, mentioned here DEUTERONOMY 30:2,6,10,16, which is the sum of the law, of which yet he doth not here speak simply, or a...
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...
Deuteronomy 30:11 commandment H4687 command H6680 (H8764) today H3117 mysterious H6381 (H8737) off H7350 it is not hidden -...
HIS COMMANDMENT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE ACHIEVED (DEUTERONOMY 30:11). Moses again stressed that what he was calling on them to do was not difficult to achieve. It did not demand great expenditure of...
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...
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...
_This commandment, is not hidden._ THREE CHARACTERISTICS OF SALVATION I. Clearness. “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.” “Ah,” you say, “there it comes in again. Whenever we go elsewher...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 30:11 NOT TOO HARD. When the heart is circumcised (see note on v. 6), keeping the law is possible. THE WORD... IS...
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...
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...
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...
Colossians 1:26; Colossians 1:27; Isaiah 45:19; Psalms 147:19;...
This commandment — The great command of loving and obeying God, which is the sum of the law, of which yet he doth not here speak, as it is in itself, but as it is molified and accompanied with the gra...