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, love and obey God; which is not in man's power, but only God's Spirit works it in his elect.
Verse Deuteronomy 30:19. See the note on the preceding verse. See Clarke on De 30:15...
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
I CALL. Figure of speech _Deasis,_ or, _Obtestatio._ App-6. HEAVEN AND EARTH. the heavens and the earth. One of thirteen occurrences. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26. TO RECORD. to witness....
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...
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
_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;...
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...
_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...
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...
_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...
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...
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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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...
_I call. He begins his canticle in the same emphatical manner, (chap. xxii.) as Isaias does his prophecy. (Haydock)_...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
DEATH AND LIFE SET BEFORE ISRAEL...
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...
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...
Compare DEUTERONOMY 4:26 JOSHUA 24:27 PSALMS 1:4 ISAIAH 1:2....
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 30:19 call H5749 heaven H8064 earth H776 witnesses H5749 (H8689) today H3117 set H5414 (H8804)
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Timothy 5:21; Acts 2:39; Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1;...
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...