Ep - 4 -—=24. From the miſchief of it upon themſelves and Children, 25. 2 Gets non Rog upon their Repent ance, 29--==3I. And from Gods wouders towards them, 32-40. Cities of Refuge are appointed, 4 l===43. | OW therefore hearken,O Ifrael,unto the ſtatutes s, N and unto the judgments b which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and goin, and poſleſs the land which the LORD God of your fathers giverh you. » The Laws which concern the worſhip and ſervice of Gods b The Laws concerning your duties to men. So theſe two com- prehend both Tables, and the whole law of God. _ 2'* Ye ſhallnot add unto the word which I com- * Chap: mand you c, neither ſhall ye diminiſh ought from it 4, 12:32." that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD Jolh-1:7- your God, which I command you.
#0:30:6. , « By deviſing other do&rines or wayes of worſhip than what I
12,33. Prov.30:6. Math:15.9. For this were to accuſe me of want of wiſdom or care or faithfulneſs in not giving you ſufficient inſtruQti- ons for my own ſervice. d By rejetting or neglefting any thing which T have commanded, though it ſeem never ſo ſmall.
2. Your eyes have ſeen what the LORD did becauſe of *Baal-Peor : for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, T * Numb: the Lord thy God hath deſtroyed them from among you.
| 25:4.&c. © 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God, Jolh.22. ,ze alive every one of you this day. [ 17, 5 Behold, I have taught you ſtatutes and judgments,
ſhould do ſo in the land whither ye go to poſleſs ir.
6 Keep therefore, _ atid do them, for this js * your *Job28:28 wiſdom and your underſtanding in the fight of the nati- Pfal. 111. 6ns 4, which ſhall hear all theſe ſtatutes, and fay,Surely this great nation js a wiſe and underſtanding people.
4 For though the generality of Heathen people in the latter and degenerat ages of the world did through invererate prejudices and :For their own luſts and intereſts condemn the Laws of the Hebrews as fooliſh and abſurd, yet it;is moſt certain, that divers of the wiſeſt
heathens did highly approve of them ſo far that they made uſe of divers of them,and tranilated them into their own Laws and Con- '> ..- Nitutions; and Moſes, the giver of theſe Laws, -hath been mentio- ned with great honour for hiswiſdom and learning by many of them. And perticularly the old Heathen Oracle expreſly ſaid, that the Chal-
deans or Hehrews, who worſbipped the uncreated God, were the only wiſe men.
. + For * what nation 3s there ſo great, who hath + God * ſo nigh unto theme, as the LORD our God x: in all
* things that we call upon him for ? ; c Þy glorious miracles, by the pledges of his ſpecial preſence,
JO. Prov: 1:7.
* Sam. 7. 23* + Heb. « God, So Gr. © i ineſs to hear our prayers, and to give us thoſe ſucco &145:18. by tus readineſs to hear our prayers, g1\ urs & 148:14, Which we call upon him for. Ifa-55:6, 8 And what nation 3s there ſo great,that hath ſtatutes
and judgments /o righteous f, as all this law which I ſer
before you this day ? |
f 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, bur in the righteouſneſs of its Laws.
9 Only take heed to thy ſelf, and keep thy ſoul dili-
gently,leſt thou forget the things which thine eyes have | ſeen, and leſt they depart from thy heart all the days of *Gen. 18. thy life : but * teach them thy ſons and thy ſons ſons : 19.ch.67, * xo Specially * the day that thou ftoodſt before the | og '9- LORD thy God in Horeb g,when the LORD ſaid un- p wy - to me,Gather me the people together, and I will make *Ex:19:9, them hear my woerds,that they may learn to fear me all 16 & 20. the days that they ſhall live spon the earth, and har 38. Heb; they may teach their children. 22, 28. £ Some of them ſtood there in their own perſons, though then they were but young, the reſt ſtood then in the loins of their Pa- rents, in whom they may well be ſaid to ſtand there, becauſe they are ſaid ro have entered into covenant with God, becauſe their Pa- rents did ſo in their name and for their uſe. .
11 And yecame near, anditood under the mountain, and the * mountain burnt with fire unto the + midſt of heaven þh, with darkneſs, clouds and thick darkneſs.
þ Flaming up into the air, which is oft called Heaven, and the midſt or the hears of it 1s not only that which is ſtritly and pro- perly the middle part, but that which is within it, though but a
little way, in which ſenſe places or perſons or thingsare ſaid to be in the heart of the Sea, Exod. 15. 8. Prov: 23: 34. Ezck: 28: 2. and - Chriſt in the heart of the Earth, Matth. 12. 40. |
12 And the LORD fpake unto you out of the midſt of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words, but ſaw no ſimilicude 5, F only ye heard a voice.
i (5.e.) No reſemblance or repreſentation of God,whereby either
his-eſſence or properries or aCtions were repreſented, ſuch as were uſual among the heathens. .
13 Andhe declared unto you his covenant, which he
*Ex:19:18 + Heb:
hearts
iHeb.ſave . | woice,
DEUTEROMNO MT
An Exhortation to obey the Law, 1---13. And warning againſt Idolatry, |
have taught or preſcribed. See Num.15.39, 49. Deut 12.8,32; 1 Kings |
even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye |
by the operations of his grace, and particularly, as it here follows, |
commianded you to perform,eves * ten commandments, *Ex-34.13 and * he wrote them upon two tables of ſtone. \ 3Ex.24:12 x4 And * the LORD commanded me ae that time, ****-'- to teach you ſtatutes and judgments k, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to poſleſs it. k (i.e.) The ceremonial and judicial Laws which are here di. ſtinguiſhed from the moral, or the tex commandments, wv. 3. IfTake ye therefore good head unto your ſelves (for ye ſaw no manner of ſimilitude on the day that the Lord