Deuteronomy 30 - Introduction
_GREAT MERCIES ARE PROMISED TO THE PENITENT: THE COMMANDMENT IS MANIFEST AND NEAR UNTO THEM: LIFE AND DEATH ARE SET BEFORE THEM._ _Before Christ 1451._... [ Continue Reading ]
_GREAT MERCIES ARE PROMISED TO THE PENITENT: THE COMMANDMENT IS MANIFEST AND NEAR UNTO THEM: LIFE AND DEATH ARE SET BEFORE THEM._ _Before Christ 1451._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 1. _WHEN ALL THESE THINGS ARE COME UPON THEE,_ &C.— Houbigant supposes this verse prophetical, and, in that view, renders it thus: _It shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee, the blessings and the curses which I have set before thee, thou shalt recover thy understanding a... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 4. _IF ANY OF THINE BE DRIVEN OUT UNTO THE OUTMOST PARTS OF HEAVEN_— See Matthew 24:31.Mark 13:27. Nehemiah alludes to this promise in his prayer for the restoration of Jerusalem, Nehemiah 1:8.; and it was in part fulfilled, when Cyrus made a proclamation throughout the kingdom, that all the... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 6. _THE LORD THY GOD WILL CIRCUMCISE THINE HEART_— Esdras and Nehemiah inform us, that the heart of the Jews was not circumcised when they returned from Babylon: the whole Jewish history teaches us the same; and so do St. Stephen and St. Paul. It is necessary, therefore, to understand this pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 to travel into distant countries to learn their duty; as the Greek philosophers and others used to tr... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 15. _LIFE AND GOOD, AND DEATH AND EVIL_— The _life_ and _good_ is explained in the next verse; the _death_ and _evil_ in the 18th: whence we learn, that the former signifies all manner of national happiness; the latter, all manner of national misery: both which Moses had set before them at la... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 impressions on their hearts, or at least to leave them inexcusable. 1. The case was plain, and on their c... [ Continue Reading ]