The Pulpit Commentary — Deuteronomy — Section 417

takings, whether in peace or in we.r, at CHAPTEil XXVIIL home or abroad. Basket e.nd thy store ; THE Du:SS!NG AND THE CunsE. rather, b<LBket and kneading-trough (see Having enjoined the proclamations of the Exod. viii. 3 ; xii. 34) ; " the basket" repre- senting the store in which the fruits of blessing and ihe curse on their entering the earth were laid up, the "kneading- into possession of Canaau, Moses, for the trough" the use cff these for the supply sake of imprcs~ing on the minds of the of daily needs (ver. 6; cf. Numb, xxvii. 17; people both the blessing and the curse, Ps. cxxi. 8). procee,ls here to dihte upon both, dwelling Ver. 8.-'fhe effect of the blessing should be seen, not only in the supremacy of Israel especially upon tl,e latter as th:i.t which the over all opposition, but in the e.bundanco people the more needed to have brought of their possessions, in the success of their home to them. As he proceeds, the language undertakin~s, e.nd in the respect in which of terrible denunciation passes into 1bat of they should be held by all nations. no less terrible prediction, in which the Storehouses. The Hebrew word (□'PP..~), calamities that shonld come upon the nation which occurs only here and in Prov. iii. 10, is properly thus r,mdered. It comes from because of their npostacy and rebellion are a root which signifies to lay up. clearly and pointedly foretold. Ver. 9.-The Lord would establish them Ver.1.-171.e Ll.eBsing. The condition sine to be e. people holy unto himself, in whose 'JfU1. non of e.11 enjoyment of the Divine blessed condition all would see that they bounty was obedience on the part of the were indeed his people, favoured by him. people to the word e.nd Law of Jehovah Ver. 10.-Thou a.rt called by the name of their God. This rendered, the blessing the Lord; rather, the Name of Jehovah ia would come on them rich and full, e.nd call.ed upon thee. The Ne.me of God is God abide with them lcf. vers. 2, 9, 13, 14). himself e.s revealed; e.nd this Name is called Ver. 2.-The blessings about to be speci- or named upon men when they are ndopted fied are represented as personified, as actual by him, made wl.tolly his, and t1ansformed agencies comiug upon their objects and into his likeness. This blessing Israel en- following them along tLeir path. joyed e.s a nation-" Theirs was the adop• Vers. 3-7.-The fulness of the blessing tion and the glory" (Rom. ix. 4)--but it in nll the relations of life, external e.nd was theirs only in symbol and in shadow internal, is presc,nted in six particulars, each (Heb. x. 1); the reality belongs only to the intrudueed by tLe "l'l"ord "blessed." Israel spiritual Israel, and this came to men in should be blessed in the house and in the all its fulness when he who is" the image field, in the fruit of the body, in the pro- of the invisible God" appeared e.nd set up d uctiom of the soil and the increase of herd his tent among men, full of grace and truth and flock, in the store and in the use of (John i. 12, 14). wh&t nature provided,-in all their under, Ver. 11.-The Lord shall make thee ple11.• cm, xxvm, 1-68.] THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY.