Deuteronomy 28:27

_THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH OF EGYPT, AND WITH THE EMERODS, AND WITH THE SCAB, AND WITH THE ITCH, WHEREOF THOU CANST NOT BE HEALED._ The botch of Egypt, х_ SHªCHIYN_ (H7822)] - an inflamed ulceration. It seems to have been very prevalent in Egypt, and of an exceedingly malignant character, so that the magicians, when smitten with it, could not stand before Moses (Exodus 9:10). It is mentioned as one of the incipient symptoms of leprosy in the diagnosis of that disease contained in Leviticus 13:18. It is supposed in its most virulent type, to have been identical with elephantiasis-a loathsome, disfiguring, incurable disease (cf. Job 2:7). But that is ment

27._The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt_. Whether you understand this passage of the extraordinary plagues which God inflicted on the Egyptians at the time of His people’s deliverance, or of the ordinary diseases which had before prevailed among them, though the latter is more probable, still Moses signifies, that whilst the Egyptians were smitten with these plagues, God’s people escaped them, in order that this distinction might more clearly represent His favor. For it could not happen naturally that in the same place the diseases, from which the Israelites were free, should afflict the Egyptians alone. God therefore threatens, that if they should despise His Law, He would deal with them as they had seen Him deal with heathen nations. And assuredly, since God then chose to multiply His people miraculously, it can be by no means doubted but that He wonderfully privileged the...

15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comf...

Verse Deuteronomy 28:27. _THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH_] שחין _shechin_, a violent inflammatory swelling. In Job 2:7, one of the Hexapla versions renders it ελεφας, the _elephantiasis_, a disease the most horrid that can possibly afflict human nature. In this disorder, the whole body is covered with a most loathsome scurf; the joints are all preternaturally enlarged, and the skin swells up and grows into folds like that of an _elephant_, whence the disease has its name. The skin, through its rigidity, breaks across at all the joints, and a most abominable _ichor_ flows from all the chinks, c. See an account of it in _Aretaeus_, whose language is sufficient to _chill_ the blood of a _maniac_, could he attend to the description given by this great master,...

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20. Deuteronomy 28:20 First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war. Deuteronomy 28:20...

EXPOSITION THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE. Having enjoined the proclamations of the blessing and the curse on their entering into possession of Canaan, Moses, for the sake of impressing on the minds of the people both the blessing and the curse, proceeds here to dilate upon both, dwelling especially upon the latter as that which the people the more needed to have brought home to them. As he proceeds, the language of terrible denunciation passes into that of no less terrible prediction, in which the calamities that should come upon the nation because of their apostasy and rebellion are clearly and pointedly foretold. DEUTERONOMY 28:1 _The_ _blessing_._ _The condition _sine qua non _of all enjoyment of the Divine bounty was obedience on

THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH OF EGYPT,.... Which some understand of the leprosy, Of that sort of it called "elephantiasis", frequent among the Egyptians; Leviticus 13:2. Thevenot i relates, that when the time of the increase of the Nile expires, the Egyptians are attended with sharp prickings in their skin like needles. So Vansleb says k, "the waters of the Nile cause an itch in the skin, which troubles such as drink of them when the river increases. This itch is very small, and appears first about the arms, next upon the stomach, and spreads all about the body, which causes a grievous pain; and not only the river water, but that out of the cisterns drank of, brings it, and it lasts about six weeks.'' Though some take this botch to be the botch and blain which the Egyptians were plagued with for refusing to let Israel go,...

24. THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The blessing promised (Deuteronomy 28:1)_ 2. The curse announced (Deuteronomy 28:15) This is one of the most solemn Chapter s in the Pentateuch. Orthodox Hebrews read in their synagogues each year through the entire five books of Moses. When they read this chapter, the Rabbi reads in a subdued voice. And well may they read it softly and ponder over it, for here is prewritten the sad and sorrowful history of that wonderful nation. Here thousands of years ago the Spirit of God through Moses outlined the history of the scattered nation, all their suffering and tribulations, as it has been for well nigh two millenniums and as it is still. Here are arguments for the divine, the supernatural origin of this book which

The curses to follow disobedience. These answer generally to the blessings of Deuteronomy 28:1, only that the order Deuteronomy 28:5; Deuteronomy 28:4 is presumed and Deuteronomy 28:1_ b_ and Deuteronomy 28:2_ b_ are ignored. Deuteronomy 28:21. pestilence: a general term; so Jeremiah 14:12....

BOTCH. elephantiasis. EMERODS. Old English spelling of modern Hemorrhoids. or "piles". Written "posteriors" in Hebrew text, but read "tumours" by way of Figure of speech _Euphemism._ SCAB. aggravated psoriasis. ITCH. prurigo....