Thestill hidden thingsare the future (cp. Isaiah 48:6), the things that are revealedare those just reviewed, God's deeds and words in the past and present. That among these present things is the Exile, as the result of Israel's disobedience, is not certain, but it seems implied. Only its issue is still hidden, in contrast to the conditional prediction of a happy issue from it delivered in the following vv. Deuteronomy 30:1-10. All that Israel can do is to keep the law already revealed. It is difficult to see the connection between this v. and its context on either side; -perhaps a later addition … the use of the first person pl. suggests a form of liturgical response after hearing the reading of the law." This -liturgical close suggests that the discourse is concluded" (Oxf. Hex.).

this law Heb. this Tôrah, see Deuteronomy 28:58.

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