F and with all thy ſonl : ; 4 T. | the LORD thy God hath ſcatered thee. explained John 11.51,52. or literally ſuch, as it is promiſed, Roze.11. gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee. * Jer. 3ill it, and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above heart f, and the heart of thy ſeed, ro love the LORD *Ezek.r F Or, M$ the Lord will circumciſe thine heart, i. e. will by his word it here follows. See Dent: 10. 16. And ſo this is produced to ſhew this, That they ſhould return and obey God's commandments, and wv. 8. 3,4. Pſal: x. 3. and 5. 12. 1/a: 16. 2. arid 64. 5, And this promiſe lone this circumciſion 1s obtained, Col: 2. 11. And ſo having fully bility in the performance of their obedience to it, he now ſeaſon- ment of their hearts in the ways of God againſt Apoſtacy. perſecnted thee. mand thee this day. in the fruit ef thy cattel, and in the fruit of thy land for **- £ Whereas thou didſt formerly receive and enjoy theſe mercies | Deut: 31. 20. and 32. 15. Now thou ſhalt have them for thy good, and faithful ſervice of God the giver of them. þ (i.e.) To dothee thy God, to keep his commandments and his ſtatutes and with all thy foul. the Grace of God doth not diſcharge mans obligation to his duty, 11 For this commandment which I command thee *chap. 45; k He ſeems to ſpeak of the Law. or of that great command of itis init ſelf, but as it is mollified and accompanied with the Grace of God's Law ſtrialy and ſeverely be now far from us, and above ſincere endeavours in ſtead of perfe&tion, and impurts'Chrifts per- Paul expounds or applies this place to the Righteouſneſs of Faith;
by which alone the Law is ſuch as it is kere deſcribed. 1 Heb: 1s not foo wongerful for thee, as Deut: 17, 8. Prov: 20. 18. Jer: 52.17: (4.e.) Nor too hard for thee to know and do the will of God, which is but darkly manifeſted roother Nations, A#s 17. 27. is clearly and fully revealed vnto thee: Thou canſt nor pretend ignorance or invincible difficulty. m2 (5. e.) Out of thy reach, _ | 12 * It 5s not in heaven » that thou ſhouldeſft ſay,
Who ſball go up for us to heaven, and bring ic unto us «pq, _ 4 that we may hear it, and do it? 6, &'.
» (7.e.) Shut up there, but ir hath been thence delivered and publiſhed in thy hearing. | | 3 a 13 Neither is it beyond the ſea o, that thovi ſhouldeft
2 F 4 fay
thap. XXXE. 'D'EVUTE | ſay, Who ſhall go over the ſea for us, and bring it unto
us that we may hear it, and do it. " © The knowledge of this commandment is not te be fetched from far diſtant places, to which divers of the wiſe Heathens tra- velled for their wiſdom, but it was brought to thy very doors and ears, and declared to thee in this Wilderneſs. ;
14 But the word 3s very nigh'unto thee, in thy mouth
?, and in thy heart q that thou mayeſt do it.
p Thou knoweſt ir ſo well, that it is the matter of thy common diſcourſe ; thou profeſſeſt thy knowledge and belief of ir. Or, mn the mouths of thy Prieſts and Levites, who are dayly preaching | of it, and inſtru&ing thee init. 9 (5. e.) In thy mind, (as the hearr
2p. x1, 15 very commontly taken) to underſtand and believe it.
pF 19. 15 * See. I have ſer before thee this day, life and
good r, and death and evil.
r (5.e.) A good or an happy life. A figure called, Hendiaduo, or, life, and all the bleſſing®6f life, as good is oftuſed, as Job. 7. 7. P/al. 4. 9. and 128. 5. Eccleſ. 2. 24. and 4. 8. and 6. 3.
16 {n that I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, to walk 'in his ways and to keep his commandments,and his ſtatutes,and his Judgements,that thou mayeſt live and multiply ; and the LORD thy God ſhall blef thee intheland, whicther thou [age to poſſeſs it,
17 But if thine heart turn away, fo that thou wilt not hear, but ſhalt de drawen away s, and worſhip other gods, and ſerve them:
- # Either by thy own evil mind, or by the examples or perſwaſi-
ons of others.
Chap 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye ſhall ſurely
©: 4+ .
26.ve.rs. periſh, and that ye ſhall not prolong your days upon the _ * Jand-whither thou paſleft over Jordantogo to poſſeſs it.
| 19 *I callheaven and earth to record thisday againſt
you ?, that Thave ſet before you life and death, blefling
[
{ thy ſeed may live.
p + Compare Dent. 4. 26. Joſ. 24. 27+ Pſal. 50. 4. Iſa. 1.2.
| 20 That thou mayeſt love the LORD thy God, and
that thou mayeſt obey his voice, and that thou mayeſt
5 cleave unto him:* (for he 3s thy life «, and the length of
4 thy days) that thou mayeſt dwell in the land which the
Wh LORD ſware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Ifaac,
and to Jacob, to give them. u (i.e:) The cauſe or author of thy life, as life is uſed Joh. 14. 6.
and 17. 3. CHA P. XXXI. Moſes declares to the people his approaching death, and encourageth them,
and curſing: therefore chuſe life, that both thou and
R ONO M YT. e Largely ſo called, the whole Law or DoQrine delivered unto Moſes contained in theſe five books. f That they might keep it care fully and religiouſly, and bring it forth upon occaſion, and read it. and inſtru the people out of ir. g To wit, ſometimes in great ſo- Jemnities, as Joſ. 3. 13, 17- and 6. 12. 1 Kings 8. 3. though the Le- vites alſo might bear it, as _—_ from Numb. 3. and 4. and 10. x Chron. 15. 2. þ Who were Aſſiſtants to the Prieſts, and Overſeers to take care that the Law ſhould be kept, and read, and obſerved. io And Moſes commanded them, ſaying, Art the end of every ſeven years, in the ſolemnity of the * year xc, , of releaſe ;, in the feaſt of tabernacles, Res
; When they were freed from debts and troubles, and. cares of worldly matters, and thereby fitter to attend upon God and his ſervice.
11 When all Iſrael is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he ſhall chuſe, * thou fhalt
read & this law before all Iſrael in their hearing. * Joſh. g,
k Thy ſelf in part, for the Jews tell us that the King was in per- 34 35. ſon to read ſome part of it, or at leaſt, thou ſhalt cauſe it to be read by the Prieſts or Levites, for he could not read it himſelf in the hearing of all Ifrae), but this was to be done by ſeveral perſons,and to the people met in ſeveral congregations. See Nehem.8. 1, &c:
12 Gather the people rogether /, men and women ”, and children » and thy ſtranger s, that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn p, and fear the LORD your God, and obſerve to do all the words of this Law.