Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all or qnnlitirs. Whioh regardeth not persons; thy eoul. Lorn prompts to sndcc. Wlwre- is not p1trti1tl, as n jn,lgc who hns respect to erer Jnyp fills the hc>Rrt, it. seeks expression tho condition nntl circumslnnces of pnrtics in nets of scrviee to its objc>ct; nnd where rather thnn to tho merits of tho cnso (cf. no such <·Xprrssion comes fort.h, the e\"idcnce Lev. xix. 15; Acts x. 31; Eph. vi, !J~ Ju,lo is wnnt.ing of the 0xistence of the emotion 16). Nor taketh reward; doth not nceept in the bosom (cf. ,John xiY. 15, 23; Gal. v. presents as bribes (cf. eh. ni. I!}; 2 Cl.iron. 13; l ,Tohn iii. JS). For thy good (cf. eh. v. xix. 7; Job xxxiv. 19; l\licnh iii. ll). 2!1; vi. 24). "In scrYing the Lord the Vers. 18, 19.-As the impartinl and in- J:!Or)' rcdonnrl!'!.h nnt,, him, the benc>fit to corruptible Judge, God executes the judg- <111rsc1Yes; for them that honour him he ment of the fatherlesa and widow, vindicates will honour (l Sam. ii. 30), nnd 'godliness the right of the defenceless (Ps. lx viii. 6; halh the promise of the life that now is, and exl\'i. !J); o.nd ns tho God of tho wholo of thnt which is to come' (1 Tim. iv. 8)" earth, he loveth the str11nger, belploss, nud (.'\ insworlh). • it may bo oppressed, and giveth him food Ycrs. H, 15.-To love nnd sen·e the Lord, and raiment. Following him, Israel, o.s his Israel w,u; specially hound, because of God's people, were to be benevolent to the stranger, lo\'e to them nnd choice of them to be his inasmuch e.s they themselves bad been J>eoplc. He, the Lord and Proprietor of strangers in Egypt, and knew hy experience the uniYerse, was free to choose any of the what it was to bo a stranger (cf. Exod. xxii. nations he pleased, e.nd needed not the 20; Lev. xix. 33, B4). '!'hey were to love r;cnice of any, but of his free grace he chose the stri.rnger as God loves him, by relieving Isroel. in whose fathers he hnd delight, to his necessities ( cf. J as. ii. 15, 16). loYe them (cf. Exod. xi.x. 5). The heaven Ver. 20.-Reverting to his main theme, and the heaven of heavens; the highest Moses a.new exhorts Israel to fear Jehovah heavens, nil that may be ea.lied bee. ven, their God, and to show true reverence to with all that it contains. Delight (" set his him by serving him, by cleaving to him, lo,e upon," eh. vii. 7); literally, cl.eaved to, e.nd by swearing in bis Name (of. eh. iv. 4; .c·as attached to. "Affection, love, choice, vi. 13; Acts xi. 23). Such reverence was the three momenta. prompting from the due from Israel to God, because of the innermost impulses to the historice.l act" great things he had done for them, and (Lange). those terrible e.cts by which his mighty Ver. 16.-They were, therefore, to le.y power had been displayed on their behalf. uside a.11 inse:isibility of heart e.nd e.11 ob- Ver. 21.-He is thy praise, i.e. the Object c:uracy, to acknowledge God's supremacy, of thy praise ; the Being who had given them to imitate his beneficence, and to fcnr e.nd abundant cause to praise him, and whom worship him. Circumcise therefore the fore- they were bound continually to praise (cf. skin of your heart. As circumcision we.s Ps. xxii. 3; cix. 1 ; J er. xvii. 14). Terrible the symbol of purification e.nd sign of con- things; nets which by their g1·eutness and 1,eeration to God, so the Israelites a.re en- awful effects inspired fear and dread into joined to realize in fact what that rite those by whom they were witnessed. For symbolized, viz. purity of heart e.nd rccep- thee; literally, with thee, i.e. either in thy ti,ity for the things of God. This is en- view or towards thee, for thy behoof (comp. forced by the consideration the.t Jehovah eh. i 30; 1 Se.m. xii. 7; Zech. vii. 9; and the alone God, the Almighty, is mighty and such a.n expression as "deal ldndly [lite- tcrriule without respect to persons, o.rnl e.t re.lly, do kindness] with," Geu. xxiv. 49, etc.). the same time is a. righteous Judge, e.nd the Ver. 22...c..Among other marvellous acts Protector of the helpless e.nd destitute. toward ]srael, we.s one done in Israel itself; Yer. 17.-God of gods (Ps. c::u:xvi. 2). they, whose fathers went down to Egypt Not only supreme over e.ll the.t a.re ea.lied only seventy in number (Gen. xlvi. 26, 27), god, but the complex e.nd sum of a.11 that is aa.d, notwithst11,nding the cruel oppression Divine; the Great Reality, of which the to which they were subjected there, grown "gods many" of the nations were e.t the to a nation n umberleRs as the ate.re (cf. Gen. Lcot hut the symbols of pe.rticule.r attribute& uii.17; eh. i.10; Neb. ix. 23),
HOMILETICS.
Vers. 1-5, 10,· 11.-The result, of the intercessory prayer of Moses. In these ver~es we be.ve e. very brief atatement of the results of the pleading of Moses for lijrael with God, which can only be duly appreciated when set side by side with the fuller account in Exod. x:ui.ii., xxxiv. It ia clear, even from the few words here given us, that the Lord's wrath was turned away, that the covcnai,t an4 the covenant prop:1ise w«;r(I Olt. X, 1-2l!.J 'tHE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY, 181