aquila .(ca_glo), is sometimes uscc! for a fogion Ver. 62.-(Cf. oh. iv. 27; x. 22; Noh. (Oms., H1sp., 30; er. Mn.tt. xx1v. 28). ix. 23.) Ver. 50.-A nation of fieroe countenance; Ver. G3.-(Of. eh. xxx. 9; Jrr. uxii. 11.) literolly, firm or hard of face; !-o, obdurate Ho, whose joy it had been to rlo them good, and dotormined (er. Prov. xx1. 29; Dan. should rejoice over their cleatructio11 (et'. viii. 23). Prov. i. 2f;). Vere. 52-57.-(Cf. Lev. xxvi. 29; 2 Kingd Ver. GI.-Tbose of them that survive,( vi. 2-l-30; Jer. xix. !) ; Lam. ii. 20; i,·. 10.) tbo plagues that should come upon thorn, Ver. 56.-So intonso should be tho hunger, ancl the horrors of the sieg0, shoulcl bo tha.t tho delica.to and sensitive woman, scattered amongst all nations to tho encls ,,f brought up in luxury, and who would not the earth, and there subjugated to the ut- set her foot on the ground lest she should most indignities and sufferings. be fatigued by tho e~crtion or offenc~ed by Ver. 66.-Thy life sball baag in doubt be- coming in conta.ct with the base ~otl,. but fora thee; literally, Thy life ,hall be huw1 when she went abroa.d must be earned ID a up before tl,ee; i.e. shall be like an object litter or borne by a ca.mel or a.n Rss,-even suspended by a thread which hangs dan <:(· she should brea.k through a.ll restraints of ling before the view, ready to fall or to bo delica.cy and affection, a.nd would secre:tly cut down at any moment. Comp.- devour the very infant she ha.d borue durrng the siege. " Omniasnnt horninurn tenui pcndcnlia filo Ver. 57.-Her young one; literally, her Et subito casu qure valuero ruunt." after-birth. Tho Hebrew suggests an ex- (Ovid,• Epp. ex Ponto,' iv. 3, 35.) treme of horror beyond what the Authorized Ver. 68.-Worst of all, they should bo Version indicates. again reduced to bondage, carried ha.ck to Vers. 58-68.-Fifth groop. Even these Egypt, put up for sale as slaves, and bo fearful calamities would not be the con- ~o utterly despicable that no ono would summation of their punishment. If they purchaso them. Bring thee into Egypt should be obstinate in their rebellion ; if age.in. •• If the Exodus was the birth of the I hey would not observe to .d? a.11 that the nation of God as such, the return would be Law delivered by Moses enJorned on them; its death" (Schultz; cf. Hos. viii. 13; i.x. :l •. if they ceased to reveren<,e and obey Je- With ships. They came out of Egypt by hovah, their God ;-then should come upon land, as free men; they should be carr,ccl them the curse in full measure, and long- back imprisoned and cooped up in slavc- continued chastisement should show how sbips. By the way whereof I spake unto grievous had been their sin. • thee, Thou shalt see it no more again. This Ver. 58.-This ·book. Not the Book of does not refer to their beiug carried to Deuteronomy, which was not then written, Egypt in ships as different from the way by but the Book of the Law, the Torah, de- which they bad come out from it, but simply livered by Moses to Israel from Goel; and to the fact that they should be carried back of which ho ha.d been, in his addresses to the thither, contrary to what was ~xptcted when people, reco.pitula.ting some of the principal they so triumphantly ea.me forth from it. points (cf. verH. 60, 61). That thou mayest There ye shall be sold; literally, shall sell fear, eto. It was not mere out';ard_ o~; yourselves; i.e. give yourselves np to be solu servance of the La.w, not the mere • dorng as slaves. Egypt may be here, as Hengsten- of what was enjoined that wa.s required, but berg suggests, "the type of future op- the doing of it heartily and sincerely in the pressors;" but there seems no reason why fear of the Lord, in the fea.r of him who had the passage shonld not be taken literally. revealed himself to them by tho glorious It is a. fact that, after the capture of J eru- 11nd awful Name, Jehovah, their God (cf. salem by Titus, the Jews were in large Lev. x.xiv. 11). numbers carried into Egypt, and there sub- Vers. 60, 61.-The diseases of Egypt are jected to most ignominious bondage; and in the plagues sent on Pharaoh and his people, the timo of Hadri.,n, multitudes of Jew~ as recorded iu Exod. vii.-xi. Besi,les tl,ese, were sold into slavery (Josephus,• De Bell. other plaaues, not recorded in the Book of the Jud.,' vi. 9, 2; cf. Philo,' Flo.co.' Ulld 'Leg. La.w, sho~ld come 0111·ebellious lsrael,so that ad Cailllll,'). • they should be almost utterly destrored.
HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-14.-God's blessing promised to the obedient. The aged lawgiver was finishing his course. Er11 the end comes he would open up to the people once more the dread alternative of blessing and cursing, and would show them that they must accept 432 THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. ten. XXVIII. 1-68,