Chapter 4:
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Deuteronomy 4
An exhortation to obedience, ver. 1-13. A warning against
idolatry, ver. 14-28. A promise upon repentance, ver. 29-40.
Cities of refuge appointed, ver. 41-43. The place where Moses
repeated the law, ver. 44-49.
Verse 1. The statutes - The laws which concern the worship and service
of God. The judgments - The laws concerning your duties to men.
So these two comprehend both tables, and the whole law of God.
Verse 6. In the sight of the nations - For though the generality of
Heathens in the latter ages, did through inveterate prejudices
condemn the laws of the Hebrew, yet it is certain, the wisest
Heathens did highly approve of them, so that they made use of
divers of them, and translated them into their own laws and
constitutions; and Moses, the giver of these laws, hath been
mentioned with great honour for his wisdom and learning by
many of them. And particularly the old Heathen oracle expressly
said, that the Chaldeans or Hebrew, who worshipped the
uncreated God, were the only wise men.
Verse 7. So nigh - By glorious miracles, by the pledges of his special
presence, by the operations of his grace, and particularly by his
readiness to hear our prayers, and to give us those succors which
we call upon him for.
Verse 8. So righteous - Whereby he implies that the true greatness of a
nation doth not consist in pomp or power, or largeness of empire,
as commonly men think, but in the righteousness of its laws.
Verse 10. Thou stoodest - Some of them stood there in their own
persons, though then they were but young, the rest in the loins of
their parents.
Verse 11. The midst of heaven - Flaming up into the air, which is often
called heaven.
Verse 12. No similitude - No resemblance or representation of God,
whereby either his essence, or properties, or actions were
represented, such as were usual among the Heathens.
Verse 14. Statutes and judgments - The ceremonial and judicial laws
which are here distinguished from the moral, or the ten
commandments.
Verse 15. In Horeb - God, who in other places and times did appear in a
similitude in the fashion of a man, now in this most solemn
appearance, when he comes to give eternal laws for the direction
of the Israelites in the worship of God, and in their duty to men,
purposely avoids all such representations, to shew that he abhors
all worship of images, or of himself by images of what kind
soever, because he is the invisible God, and cannot be represented
by any visible image.
Verse 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves - Your ways, by worshipping God
in a corrupt manner.
Verse 19. Driven - Strongly inclined. Which the Lord hath divided unto
all nations - Which are not Gods, but creatures, made not for the
worship, but for the use of men; yea, of the meanest and most
barbarous people under heaven, and therefore cannot without
great absurdity be worshipped, especially by you who are so much
advanced above other nations in wisdom and knowledge, and in
this, that you are my peculiar people.
Verse 24. A consuming fire - A just and terrible God, who,
notwithstanding his special relation to thee, will severely punish
thee, if thou provoke him. A jealous God - Who being espoused to
thee, will be highly incensed against thee, (if thou follow after
other lovers, or commit whoredom with idols) and will bear no
rival or partner.
Verse 28. Ye shall serve Gods - You shall be compelled by men, and
given up by me to idolatry. So that very thing which was your
choice, shall be your punishment: it being just and usual for God
to punish one sin by giving men up to another.
Verse 29. If from thence thou seek the Lord - Whatever place we are in,
we may from thence seek him. There is no part of the earth which
has a gulf fixt between it and heaven.
Verse 30. In the latter days - In succeeding ages.
Verse 32. The one side of heaven - That is, of the earth under heaven.
Ask all the inhabitants of the world.
Verse 33. And live - And was not overwhelmed and consumed by such a
glorious appearance.
Verse 34. By temptations - Temptations is the general title, which is
explained by the following particulars, signs, and wonders, &c.
which are called temptations, because they were trials both to the
Egyptians and Israelites, whether they would be induced to
believe and obey God or no. By terrors - Raised in the minds of
the Egyptians, or, by terrible things done among them.
Verse 37. In his sight - Keeping his eye fixed upon him, as the father
doth on his beloved child.
Verse 44. This is the law - More punctually expressed in the following
chapter, to which these words are a preface.
Chapter 4:
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