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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy
Harper, Andrew · 161,366 words · 197 reading sections
(A). The Song Of Moses
"He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye." To depict the Divine care worthily, he ventures upon a simile of a specially tender kind, rare in the Old Testament, but to which our Lord's comparison of His own brooding affection for Jerusalem to that of a "hen gathering her chickens …
708 wordsSECTION 182(A). The Song Of Moses
"How could one chase a thousand, And two put to flight ten thousand, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And that Yahweh had delivered them up?" There was no possible explanation of Israel's defeats but this; for neither in the gods of the heathen nor in the heathen nations themselves was there anything to a…
699 wordsSECTION 183(B) The Blessing Of Moses
With this great vision of judgment the poet leaves his people. For them the first necessity evidently was that they should be assured that Yahweh reigned, that evil could not ultimately prosper. With their whole horizon dominated and illumined by this tremendous figure of the ever living and avenging God, their faith i…
1,063 wordsSECTION 184(B) The Blessing Of Moses
Then follow the blessings, beginning with good wishes for Reuben as the firstborn. But the tribe is not highly favoured. It is however less severely dealt with than in Jacob's blessing. There instability and obscurity are foretold of it. Here it would seem as if the fortunes of the tribe were at the lowest ebb, and a w…
669 wordsSECTION 185(B) The Blessing Of Moses
With the eighth verse the blessing of Levi (one of the two most heartfelt and sympathetic) begins. In it Yahweh is addressed thus:-- "Thy Urim and thy Thummim be to the men (_i.e._ tribe) of thy devoted one (_i.e._ Moses or Aaron), Whom thou didst prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meriba…
662 wordsSECTION 186(B) The Blessing Of Moses
15 "And by the (precious things of the) tops of the ancient mountains And by the precious things of the everlasting hills; 16 "And by the precious things of the earth and its fulness. And may the good-will of Him that dwelt in the bush Come upon Joseph's head, And upon the top of the head of the crowned among his …
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The soil in the territory of Naphtali was specially fruitful, in the region of Huleh and on the shore of the Sea of Gennesaret. These are the sea and the hot south part which the tribe is called upon to take as a possession, and because of which the favour of Yahweh and His blessing specially rested upon it. 24 "And o…
356 wordsSECTION 188_Moses' Character And Death_
It has been often said, and it has even become a principle of the critical school, that the historical notices in the earlier documents of the Old Testament represent nothing but the ideas current at the time when they were written. Whether they depict an Abraham, a Jacob, or a Moses, all they really tell us is the kin…
959 wordsSECTION 189_Moses' Character And Death_
But in endeavouring to set forth this conception of the character of Moses, we cannot confine ourselves to what appears in this book. It is generally acknowledged that the author had at least the Yahwist and the Elohist documents in their entirety before him, and regarded them with respect, not to say reverence. Conseq…
1,075 wordsSECTION 190_Moses' Character And Death_
Enlightened and assured by this great revelation of God, Moses left the quiet of the desert to undertake an extraordinarily difficult task. He had to weld jealous tribes into a nation; he had to rouse men whose courage had been broken by slavery and cruelty to undertake a dangerous revolt; and he had to prepare for the…
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But besides these two classes of laws and customs there must have been a number which were so bound up with the lower religion that they could not be adopted. They would either be obstructive of the new ideas, or they would be positively hostile to them; for on any supposition heathenism of various sorts was largely mi…
866 wordsSECTION 192_Moses' Character And Death_
In previous perplexities the narrative represents Moses as calling instantly upon Yahweh; but now, when experience had taught him the formidable nature of his task, when difficulties had increased upon him, when his perplexities of all kinds must have been simply overwhelming, he heard the voice of Yahweh calling him t…
790 wordsSECTION 193_Moses' Character And Death_
[136] "Moses' God," _British Weekly_, February 2, 1893. From this point onward the idea of Moses that Deuteronomy gives us is that of a great popular leader, meeting with extraordinary calmness all the crises of government, and guiding his people with unwavering steadfastness. Without power, except that which his rela…
1,086 wordsSECTION 194_Moses' Character And Death_
But the question may now arise, Is not this character of Moses which the author of Deuteronomy partly had before him and partly helped to elaborate, too exalted to be reliable? Can we suppose that a man in Moses' day and circumstances could actually have entertained such thoughts, and have possessed such a character as…
847 wordsSECTION 195_Moses' Character And Death_
[137] _Convito of Dante_, Morley's _Universal Library_, Introduction, pp. 6 ff. But the narrative itself, considered merely as a history, is of such a nature as to give confidence that it rests upon some record of an actual life. Ideal sketches of great men (setting aside the products of modern fictive art) are much …
438 wordsSECTION 196Fifth Series, 1891-2.
_Crown 8vo, cloth, price $1.50 each vol._ Colossians, By A. MACLAREN, D.D. St. Mark, By Very Rev. the Dean of Armagh. Genesis, By Prof. MARCUS DODS, D.D. 1 Samuel, By Prof. W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D. 2 Samuel, By the same Author. Hebrews, By Principal T.C. EDWARDS, D.D. Galatians, By Prof. G. G. FINDLAY, B.A. T…
291 wordsSECTION 197*** End Of The Project Gutenberg Ebook The Expositor'S Bible: The Book Of Deuteronomy ***
1 Kings, By Ven. Archdeacon FARRAR. Philippians, By Principal RAINY, D.D. Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, By Prof. W. F. ADENEY, M.A. Joshua, By Prof. W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D. The Psalms, By A. MACLAREN, D.D. Vol. II. The Epistles of St. Peter, By Prof. RAWSON LUMBY, D.D. 2 Kings, By Ven. Archdeacon FARRAR. Romans, B…
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