These [are] the (a) words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside
the covenant which he made with them in (b) Horeb.
(a) That is, the articles, or conditions.
(b) At the first giving of the law, which was forty years earlier.... [ Continue Reading ]
The (c) great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
those great miracles:
(c) The proofs of my power.... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet the LORD hath not (d) given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
(d) He shows that it is not in man's power to understand the mysteries
of God if it is not given to him from above.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have not eaten (e) bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.
(e) Made by man's art, but manna, which is called the bread of angels.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your (f) God; your
captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all
the men of Israel,
(f) Who knows your hearts, and therefore you may not think to conceal
from him.... [ Continue Reading ]
That thou shouldest (g) enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
(g) Alluding to them, that when they made a sure covenant, divided a
beast in two, and past between the parts divided, (Genesis 15:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our
God, and also with [him] (h) that [is] not here with us this day:
(h) Meaning, their posterity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and]
serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you (i) a
root that beareth gall and wormwood;
(i) Such sin, as the bitter fruit of it might choke and... [ Continue Reading ]
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
in the imagination of mine heart, to add (k) drunkenness to thirst:
(k) For as he that is thirsty desires to drink much so he that follows
his appetites seeks... [ Continue Reading ]
So that the (l) generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall
say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which
the LORD hath laid upon it;
(l) God's plagues on those who rebel against him will be so str... [ Continue Reading ]
The (m) secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those
[things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for
ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.
(m) Moses by this proves their curiosity, who seek those things that
are only known to God: and their negligence who... [ Continue Reading ]