CONTENTS As Moses had now nearly concluded everything relating to the precepts; he enjoins the people in this chapter to adopt a means of keeping alive in their remembrance the great things of GOD'S law, by writing it upon stones. And the chapter is concluded in aiming to impress the whole still mo... [ Continue Reading ]
If the Reader will recollect, similar methods of perpetuating the law of GOD, were observed after the delivery on Mount Sinai. Exodus 24:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader not to overlook the plainness to be observed in the building of this altar: nothing of human art or labour was to be joined with it, nor any human tool to pollute it. And as CHRIST is our altar, was not this manifestly teaching that his purity would be sullied, if we bring to it any... [ Continue Reading ]
The feast of peace-offerings, carried with it a token of the peace and amity between GOD and his people. The feast of the LORD'S Supper in the Gospel Church is to the same amount, for it is a feast upon a sacrifice, in token that JESUS hath made our peace in the blood of his cross: he is our passove... [ Continue Reading ]
The repeated charges and cautions given, imply the vast importance of the thing itself. Deuteronomy 30:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Mount Ebal, and the Mount Gerizzim, stood near each other, a valley being between them. It is worthy remark, that in the Gospel state, when JESUS went up into the mountain, it was only to bless his people. The tribes were divided in six to each, for blessing the people, and for pronouncing the c... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably from the number of Israel, many Levites was engaged in this service.... [ Continue Reading ]
I detain not the Reader with observations concerning the several curses here pronounced, or entering into the particulars of them. It is enough to remark, that they express their several sentences of condemnation to the several breaches of the law: and as the law pronounceth a curse upon everyone th... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS How sweet and refreshing to my soul are the views of JESUS, as the high priest and altar, and offering of my heart, in the moment that I read the solemn charges of GOD'S law, and the dreadful penalty of disobedience. My soul indeed cannot but subscribe with full consent to GOD'S justice... [ Continue Reading ]