Chapter 30:
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Deuteronomy 30
Promises upon their repentance, ver. 1-10. The
righteousness of faith set before them, ver. 11-14. Life and death
offered to their choice, ver. 15-20.
Verse 1. The blessing - When thou art obedient. The curse - When thou
becomest rebellious.
Verse 6. And the Lord - Or, For the Lord will circumcise thine heart,
will by his word and spirit change and purge thy heart from all
thine idolatry and wickedness, and incline thy heart to love him.
God will first convert and sanctify them, the fruit whereof shall
be, that they shall return and obey God's commandments, ver. 8,
and then shall prosper in all things, ver. 9. This promise
principally respects the times of the gospel, and the grace which
was to be then imparted to all Israel by Christ.
Verse 9. For good - Whereas thou did formerly receive these mercies for
thy hurt, now thou shalt have them for thy good, thy heart shall be
so changed that thou shalt not now abuse them, but employ them
to the service of God the giver. Over thee for good - To do thee
good; as he did rejoice to destroy thee.
Verse 10. If thou wilt hearken - This is added to warn them that they
should not receive the grace of God in vain, and to teach them that
the grace of God doth not discharge man's obligation to his duty,
nor excuse him for the neglect of it. It is observable, that Moses
calls God, the Lord thy God twelve times in these ten verses. In
the threatnings of the former chapter, he is all along called the
Lord, a God of power, and the judge of all. But in the promises of
this chapter, the Lord thy God, a God of grace, and in covenant
with thee.
Verse 11. This commandment - The great command of loving and
obeying God, which is the sum of the law, of which yet he doth
not here speak, as it is in itself, but as it is molified and
accompanied with the grace of the gospel. The meaning is, that
tho' the practice of God's laws be now far from us, and above our
strength, yet, considering the advantage of gospel grace, whereby
God enables us to do our duty, it is near and easy to us, who
believe. And so this well agrees with Rom. x, 6, &c. where St.
Paul applies this place to the righteousness of faith. Is not hidden -
Hebrew. Is not too wonderful for thee, not too hard for thee to
know and do. The will of God, which is but darkly manifested to
other nations, Acts xvii, 27, is clearly and fully revealed unto
thee: thou canst not pretend ignorance or invincible difficulty.
Verse 12. In heaven - Shut up there, but it hath been thence delivered
and published in thy hearing.
Verse 13. Neither beyond the sea - The knowledge of this
commandment is not to be fetched from far distant places, to
which divers of the wise Heathens travelled for their wisdom; but
it was brought to thy very doors and ears, and declared to thee in
this wilderness.
Verse 14. In thy mouth - Thou knowest it so well, that it is the matter of
thy common discourse. In thy heart - In thy mind, (as the heart is
very commonly taken) to understand and believe it. In a word, the
Law is plain and easy: but the gospel is much more so.
Verse 19. Chuse life - They shall have life that chuse it: they that chuse
the favour of God, and communion with him, shall have what they
chuse. They that come short of life and happiness, must thank
themselves only. They had had them, if they had chosen them,
when they were put to their choice: but they die, because they will
die.
Verse 20. That thou mayest love the Lord thy God - Here he shews them
in short, what their duty is; To love God as the Lord, a being most
amiable, and as their God, a God in covenant with them: as an
evidence of their love, to obey his voice in every thing, and by
constancy in this love and obedience, to cleave to him all their
days. And what encouragement had they to do this? For he is thy
life and the length of thy days - He gives life, preserves life,
restores life, and prolongs it, by his power, tho' it be a frail life,
and by his presence, tho' it be a forfeited life. He sweetens life by
his comforts, and compleats all in life everlasting.
Chapter 30:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
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