Chapter 29:
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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
Deuteronomy 29
The following commentary covers Chapters 28 and 29.
The
immediate consequences of obedience or disobedience
In
chapter 28 we
have the principles of God's government in the midst of
that people, and the immediate consequences of obedience
or disobedience—consequences so solemnly fulfilled
in the fate of that unhappy people, still beloved for the
fathers sakes. The consequences of the violation of the
law as a principle of relationship with God, as to the
point of a righteousness which was adequate ground of
God's acceptance, must not be confounded with the
temporary consequences of disobedience under the
government of God. It is to these latter that chapter 28
has reference. We may notice for ourselves the deep
instruction of verses 47, 48. As to Israel, universal
history presents to us the accomplishment of the threats
of the chapter.
God's exhortations
applied to the conscience; His unalterable purpose
Chapter 29 is
the personal application to the conscience of the people,
both collectively and individually, of all that precedes,
that there may be no bitter root of sin (compare Heb. 12:
15, the application of this exhortation to the discipline
and the loving care of saints now).
Verse 29 requires to be
noticed. We find in it the contrast between the
consequences thus
revealed of obedience and
disobedience, and the purposes of God in behalf of the
people,
notwithstanding their disobedience—purposes
which evidently could not be a rule for their conduct.
The rule was found in the ordinance of the law. The
meaning of this verse has been so twisted, that it is
worth while thus to point out its force. The secret
things are the purposes of God with regard to the people,
though they should have been disobedient and driven out
of the land; but, although they are not the rule of
conduct, they are revealed and are of deep interest. In
what follows, God begins already to present them to our
attention, and surely it becomes us to consider them.
Summary of
chapters 27, 28, 29
Thus we have, in these
chapters, the relationship of the pious Jew with God,
grounded upon the accomplishment of the promises made to
the fathers, in the present enjoyment of the land; the
relationship of the people with God, in view of the curse
pronounced upon the violation of the law; the
relationship of the people with God, according to the
principles of His government, the consequences brought
in, either by their obedience or disobedience: and,
finally, after the disobedience, and when this has
produced its fruit, the designs of God according to His
purpose, which nothing could alter.
Chapter 29:
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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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