And 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 thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, Ver. 1. _The blessing and the curse._] When thou hast made trial of bot... [ Continue Reading ]
And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; Ver. 2. _And shalt return to the Lord._] By sin we run away from God; by repentance we return to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. Ver. 3. _That then the Lord thy God._] _Conversio Iudaeorum magnifice hic promittitur,_ saith one. Here is a stately... [ Continue Reading ]
If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: Ver. 4. _If any of thine be driven._] The Jews have been, for this sixteen hundred years and upwards, a dejected and despised people, hated and cast... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. Ver. 6. _And the Lord thy God._] See Deuteronomy 10:16 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. Ver. 7. _Will put all these curses upon thine enemies._] God will recompense "tribulation to them that have troubled you"; 2Th 1:6 he will "spoil the spoilers"; Isa 33:1 "deliver th... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. Ver. 8. _And thou shalt return._] Come again to thyself, as the prodigal, who had been for some while beside himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: Ver. 9. _And in the fruit of thy land for... [ Continue Reading ]
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 righteousness of faith, Rom 10:6 and speaketh on this wise, the doctrine of salvation by faith that works by lo... [ Continue Reading ]
It [is] not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Ver. 12. _Who shall go up for us to heaven?_] And yet to know heavenly things, is to ascend into heaven. Pro 30:4... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Ver. 13. _Neither is it beyond the sea._] Beyond the sea it was to us, till blessed Luther's books were brought hither, together with Tyndale's translatio... [ Continue Reading ]
But the word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Ver. 14. _Very nigh._] Nigher than the skin is to the flesh, or the flesh to the bones; it is within thy nature, and shall be in thy heart, λογος εμφυτος, an inbred or indwelling word. Jam 1:21 _ That th... [ Continue Reading ]
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; Ver. 15. _See, I have set before thee._] Matters of great importance must be set on with greatest vehemency.... [ Continue Reading ]
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. Ver. 16. _To love the Lord._] God m... [ Continue Reading ]
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; Ver. 17. _But if thine heart turn away._] This is that death and evil. Deu 30:15... [ Continue Reading ]
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. Ver. 18. _I denounce unto you._] See on Deuteronomy 30:15 .... [ Continue Reading ]
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 and death, blessing and cursing._] Of God it may be more truly affirmed, than ever it was of Charles... [ Continue Reading ]
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Ver. 20.... [ Continue Reading ]