INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30 This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THESE THINGS ARE COME UPON THEE,.... Declared, pronounced, foretold, and prophesied of in the three preceding Chapter s, especially in Deuteronomy 28:1; THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE WHICH I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE; the blessings promised to those that pay a regard to... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALT RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD,.... By repentance, acknowledging their manifold sins and transgressions, particularly their disbelief and rejection of the Messiah, now seeking him and salvation by him; see Hosea 3:5; AND SHALT OBEY HIS VOICE; in the Gospel, yielding the obedience of faith t... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEN THE LORD THY GOD WILL TURN THY CAPTIVITY, AND HAVE COMPASSION ON THEE,.... Return them from their captivity, or bring them out of it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; free them from their present exile, and deliver them from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law; and all this as th... [ Continue Reading ]
IF [ANY] OF THINE BE DRIVEN OUT UNTO THE OUTMOST [PARTS] OF HEAVEN,.... As many of them are in this remote island of ours, Great Britain, reckoned formerly the uttermost part of the earth, as Thule, supposed to be Schetland, an isle belonging to Scotland, is said to be m; Deuteronomy 28:49; and as s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHICH THY FATHERS POSSESSED, AND THOU SHALT POSSESS IT,.... That the Jews upon their conversion in the latter day will return to the land of Judea again, and possess it, is the sense of many passages of Scripture; among others, see Jeremiah 30:18; t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL CIRCUMCISE THINE HEART, AND THE HEART OF THY SEED,.... No mention is made of circumcision of the flesh, which will now be out of use with the Jews; they being fully convinced of the abrogation of the ceremonial law by the Messiah, whom they will now receive. It is spiritual... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL PUT ALL THESE CURSES UPON THINE ENEMIES,.... Recorded in Deuteronomy 28:16; that is, the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan; for he being now sought unto, and embraced, will be their King and their Saviour, and revenge their enemies: AND ON THEM THAT HATE THEE, WH... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOU SHALL RETURN, AND OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD,.... In the Gospel; obey the form of doctrine delivered to them, embrace the truth of the Gospel cordially, and yield a cheerful subjection to the ordinances of it; or receive the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan, Christ, the essential... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL MAKE THEE PLENTEOUS IN EVERY WORK OF THINE HAND,.... In every manufacture, trade, or business of life in which they should be employed; the meaning is, that the Lord will greatly bless them in all that they shall set their hands to in a lawful way; so that they shall abound... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY GOD,.... Or rather, "for thou shalt hearken" p; seeing it is before promised that the Lord would circumcise their hearts to love him, and they should obey his voice, Deuteronomy 30:6. The Targum is, "receive the Word of the Lord:'' TO KEEP HIS C... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS COMMANDMENT WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY,.... Which the Jews understand of the law, but the Apostle Paul has taught us to interpret it of the word of faith, the Gospel preached by him and other ministers, Romans 10:6; which better suits with the context, and the prophecies before delivered... [ Continue Reading ]
IT [IS] NOT IN HEAVEN,.... The scheme of it was formed in heaven, it was hid in the heart of God there, before revealed; it was ordained before the world was for our glory; it was brought down from thence by Christ, and committed to his apostles and ministers of the word to preach it to men; and has... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER [IS] IT BEYOND THE SEA,.... There is no need to travel into foreign parts, into transmarine countries for it, as the Heathen philosophers did to get knowledge; for the Gospel is ordered to be preached to all the world, and sent into all nations; and at the time of the conversion of the Jews... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE WORD [IS] VERY NIGH UNTO THEE,.... In the ministration of it by those who clearly, plainly, and faithfully preach it, and in the application of it by the Spirit of God to the heart; and in the gracious experience converted persons have of the power and efficacy of it in them, and of the comf... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE, I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE THIS DAY,.... Moses here returns to press the Israelites to the present observance of the laws, statutes, and judgments of one sort and another, he had been delivering to them; as being of great moment and importance to them, no other than LIFE AND GOOD, AND DEATH AND EV... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY TO LOVE THE LORD THY GOD,.... Which is the sum and substance of the first table of the law, and includes the whole worship of God, the contrary to which are idolatry, superstition, and will worship, from which Moses had been dissuading and deterring them: TO WALK IN... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF THINE HEART TURN AWAY,.... From the true God, and the right worship of him, and from his commands, statutes, and judgments: SO THAT THOU WILT NOT HEAR; the voice of the Lord and obey it, or hearken to his laws, and do them: BUT SHALT BE DRAWN AWAY; by an evil heart, and by the ill examples... [ Continue Reading ]
I DENOUNCE UNTO, YOU THIS DAY THAT YE SHALL SURELY PERISH,.... By one judgment or another; this he most solemnly averred, and it might be depended upon that it would certainly be their case; see Deuteronomy 4:26; [AND THAT] YE SHALL NOT PROLONG [YOUR] DAYS UPON THE LAND, WHITHER THOU PASSEST OVER J... [ Continue Reading ]
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 upon as witnesses to matters of moment and importance; see Deuteronomy 4:26; or figuratively, the inha... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THOU MAYEST LOVE THE LORD THY GOD,.... And show it by keeping his commands: [AND] THAT THOU MAYEST OBEY HIS VOICE; in his word, and by his prophets: AND THAT THOU MAYEST CLEAVE UNTO HIM; and to his worship, and not follow after and serve other gods: FOR HE [IS] THY LIFE, AND THE LENGTH OF TH... [ Continue Reading ]