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The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:65-69
Mental torture as a result of sin. The picture here drawn is true in an especial sense of the Jews in their state of exile, maddened, affrighted, and kept in continual torture and suspense by the persecutions and miseri…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:66
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; literally, Thy life shall be hung up before thee; i.e. shall be like an object suspended by a thread which hangs dangling before the view, ready to fall or to be cut down at any…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:68
Worst of all, they should be again reduced to bondage, carried back to Egypt, put up for sale as slaves, and be so utterly despicable that no one would purchase them. Bring thee into Egypt again. "If the Exodus was the…
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1-9
Both former mercies, and fresh mercies, should be thought on by us as motives to obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding heart, are the gift of God. All that have them, have them from him. God…
Mercies Called to Remembrance. (b. c. 1451.)
MERCIES CALLED TO REMEMBRANCE. (B. C. 1451.) Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (…
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:10-21
The national covenant made with Israel, not only typified the covenant of grace made with true believers, but also represented the outward dispensation of the gospel. Those who have been enabled to consent to the Lord's…
The Covenant Renewed. (b. c. 1451.)
THE COVENANT RENEWED. (B. C. 1451.) It appears by the length of the sentences here, and by the copiousness and pungency of the expressions, that Moses, now that he was drawing near to the close of his discourse, was ver…
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:22-28
Idolatry would be the ruin of their nation. It is no new thing for God to bring desolating judgments on a people near to him in profession. He never does this without good reason. It concerns us to seek for the reason,…
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:29
Moses ends his prophecy of the Jews' rejection, just as St. Paul ends his discourse on the same subject, when it began to be fulfilled, Ro 11:33. We are forbidden curiously to inquire into the secret counsels of God, an…
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 30:1-10
In this chapter is a plain intimation of the mercy God has in store for Israel in the latter days. This passage refers to the prophetic warnings of the last two chapters, which have been mainly fulfilled in the destruct…
Promises to the Penitent. (b. c. 1451.)
PROMISES TO THE PENITENT. (B. C. 1451.) These verses may be considered either as a conditional promise or as an absolute prediction. I. They are chiefly to be considered as a conditional promise, and so they belong to a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-10
The restoration of the Jews. So certain is the apostasy and the judgment on the land, that Moses assumes it as an accomplished fact, thereupon proceeding to predict a restoration of the "scattered nation" in case of the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-20
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The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Though rejected and exiled because of rebellion and apostasy, Israel should not be absolutely or forever cast off. When dispersed among the nations, if the people should return to Jehovah their God, he would again recei…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1
Thou shalt call them to mind (cf. 1 Kings 8:47, where the same expression is rendered by "bethink themselves"). This is the meaning here also; it is not the mere recollection of the curse and the blessing that is referr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Dispersion not rejection. It is very comforting to pass from so gloomy a chapter as the twenty-eighth to such a paragraph as this. In this thirtieth chapter, the onlook and outlook of Moses are much more extended than b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Israel's restoration. The blackness of the picture of Israel's rejection and desolation is relieved by this rim of gold on the further edge. The verses seem to teach, not only that if Israel repent, mercy awaits it, but…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Divine discipline founded on known principle. Human anger is often an uncontrollable passion. God's anger is directed, not so much against the man, as against his sin. God's anger is the acting of sound principle—a part…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:2
And shalt return unto the Lord thy God; retrain from the worship of false gods to worship and serve Jehovah the one true God, the God of their fathers, and the God whom as a nation they had before wet-shipped (cf. Nehem…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:3
The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity. This does not mean will cause thy captives to return, for Deuteronomy 30:4, Deuteronomy 30:5 Consequent on this deliverance would be the gathering of Israel from all the places…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:6
(comp. with Jeremiah 30:1-24 :31-34, and Hebrews 8:6).— The old and new covenants. It may not be uninstructive at this stage of homiletic teaching upon this book, to place on record the points of comparison and of contr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:6
The Lord will circumcise thine heart; "when thou wilt become better, God will help thereto (cf. Deuteronomy 10:16)" (Herxheimer). When Israel should return to the Lord, he would take away from them the evil heart of unb…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:10
Israel would then be restored to the full enjoyment of privilege, would again enter into covenant union with the Almighty, and would be enriched with all the blessings of his favor (cf. Deuteronomy 28:11, Deuteronomy 28…
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 30:11-14
The law is not too high for thee. It is not only known afar off; it is not confined to men of learning. It is written in thy books, made plain, so that he who runs may read it. It is in thy mouth, in the tongue commonly…