23 * Andit came to paſs, when ye heard the voice out of the midſt of the darkneſs, ( for the mountain did burn with fire )that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.
24 And ye ſaid, Behold, the LORD our God hath ; o. {bewedus his glory and his greatneſs, and * we have heard *'7* his voice out of the midſt of the fire : we have ſeen this *Chan: ,: Gay that God doth talk with man, and * he liveth.
25 *® 25 Now therefore why ſhould we die 0? for this great | fire will confume us, If we} hear the voice of the LORD THeb. add gyr Ged any more, then we fhall die. Fo bear. o For though God hath for this ſeaſon kept us alive toour admi- ration, yet we ſhall never be able to endure any further diſcourſe from him in ſuch a terrible manner, but ſhall cerrainly fink under
the burden of it. Compare Gen: 16: 13: Jag: 6: 22.
26 For who 3s there of all fleſh p, that hath heard the yoice of the living God, ſpeaking out of the mid(t of the fire ( as we have ) and lived !
? Fleſbis here put for Man in his frail corruptible and mortal ſtate,
as Mat: 16. 17* 1 Cor: 15: 56: Eph: 6: 12: Heb: 2: 14:
27. Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our
God ſball ſay, and * ſpeak thou unto us all that the 'LORD our God ſhall ſpeak unto thee, and we will hear z#t, and do ze.
28 Andthe LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye ſpake unto me, andthe LORD ſaid unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have ſpoken unto thee : * they have well ſaid all that they have ſpoken. | |
* Ne .'29 | * O that there were ſuch an heart in them ut. that they would fear me, and keep all my command- a8: 17: | i SF Be . s +Heb who Mentsalways, thatit might be well with them, and with will give their Children for ever ! #heir heart q Heb. Who will give them ſuch an heart ? This is ſpoken of God #6 be ſuch after the manner of men, to ſhew that ſuch an heart is deſirable to in them, him, and required by him : otherwiſe it 1s certain that God can Chap: give ſuch an heart, and hath Promiſed to give it, Jer. 32: 40: Exek; ——— 36: 27. And if God will work, who can hinder him ? Job 11. 10. gy : 20 Go, fay to them, Getye into your tents again. I(a:48: 18: * 31 But as for thee, ſtand thou here by me, and I will Mat: 23: ſpeak unto thee all the commandments, and the ftacutes, and the judgments which thou halt reach chem, thatthey may do them in the land which I give them to pollels it. .32 Ye ſhall obſerve to do therefore as the LORD ' 28. 14. your God hath commanded you : * ye ſhall not turn
Joik: 1:7 aſide to the right hand, or to the left r.
*Exo0d:20: 18;
T9:
*Exo0d:20: 19:
* Chap: 17; b &
EMT ZR 0NOM 7,
Chap. VI. y Neither by ſuperſtitious additions to God's Commands, nor by 2 bold or prophane reje&ion or contempt of any one of them. 22 Ye ſhall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded yon, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong
your days, in the land which ye ſhall poſſeſs.
CHAP. Th The end of the Commandment, Obedience, 1 —2. He exhorts them thereto, 3.
The Unity of the Divine Eſſence aſſerted, 4. The Duty required of the
Iſraelites 5. To Love God, 5, 6, And teach thetr Children, 7. Ty ve
Signs, as Memerials of it, 8, g,. Not to forget God in proſperity, 1to==*12,
Not to worſhip other gods, 134, ——=15. Not to tempt God, 16. Bit keep
his Commandments, 17. And to tranſmit the Knowledge of Gods worrs to
their proſperity, 20 — 25.
O W theſe are the commandments, the ſtatutes,
and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, thatye might do rhe 1n the land whither ye + go to poſſeſs it :
2 That thou mighteſt fear the LORD # thy God, to + Heb, keep all his ſtatutes ; and his commandments which [ 2-/:ver. command thee, thou and thy ſon, and thy ſons ſon, all thedays of thy life : and that thy days may be prolonged.
4 Which ke hereby implies to be the firſt principle of true Obes dience.
2 Hear therefore, O Iſrael, and obſerveto do z:, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increaſe mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promiſed thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 * Hear O lfrael, F the LORD: our God zs one LORD 2. * Mark 6 One in Eſſence, and the only obje&t of our Worſhip. I 2: 29;
5 And * thou ſhalt love the LOR D c thy God with all t Heb. thine heart, and withall thy ſoul, and with all thy might. £RD wn c Now he ſhews another ſpring or principle of ſincere Obedience ©%*> 74 to God, even hearty love to God, which will make his work and is ſervice eaſie, and that the fear he mentioned before, v. 2. was ſuch 9-5 Gr,
as would conſiſt with love to God, and not that ſlaviſh fear and ho- nour which produceth hatred.
6 And *theſe words which I command thee this day {ball be in thine heart /. Mark *
a i.e. Inthy mind to remember them, and meditate upon them, 3o: andin thy AfffeCtion to love and purſue them. Luke 10,
7 And thou ſhalt * F teach them diligently e unto 27. thy children, and ſhalt talk of them when thou ſitteſt in *Chap.rr.
(ap; TO: 12:
Mart: 23:
when thou lieſt down, and when thou riſeſt up. 31. & 40: e Heb. Wzet, or ſharpen them, ſo as they may pierce deep into their 8. 8& 119, ' hearts: This Meraphor ſignifies the manner of inſtructing them, 98. Ifa, that it 15 to be done diligently, earneſtly, frequently, diſcreetly and 571. 7. dexterouſly. * Ch: 4:9: 8 And thou ſhalt * bind them for a fign upon thy + Heb. hand, and they ſhall be as frontlets between thy eyes f. 2% 7 f Thou ſhalt give all diligence, and uſ- all means to keep rhem in thy remembrance, as men off times bind ſomething upon their hands, or put it before their eyes to prevent forgetfulneſs of a thing þ* #0; which they much deſire tro remember, Compare Prov: 3; 3: and 6: 21: # Heb: fr and 7: 3. See the notes on Exodus 13. 16. frontlets,
9 * And thou fhalt write them upon the poſts of thine houſe, and on thy gates.
10 And it ſhall be, when the LORD thy God ſhall have brought thee intothe land, which heſware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Iſaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cicies * which thou buildedſt not ;
11 And houſes full of all good things, which thou *Pſal:ro. filledſt not, and wells digged which thou diggeft not, 4+: vineyards and olive-trees which thou plantedit nor, * when thou ſhalt have eaten, and be full,
* Chap: T1, 207
Ia: 57:8,
* Chap.$
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the
houſe of + bondage. + Heb.