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John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, even I, am he ,.... Which words are directed to the people of God in their low estate, to look to Christ, and expect deliverance and salvation from him; or to their enemies that insult them, to the despisers, to look, and wonder, and perish, as they will, when the witnesses slain by them shall arise, and go up to heaven in their sight, Revelation 11:11 ; they are spoken by the Word and Son of God, to whom the Father has committed all judgment, and who will now rise up... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock - The gods and pretended protectors of the Romans. Is not as our Rock - Have neither power nor influence like our God. Our enemies themselves being judges - For they often acknowledged the irresistible power of that God who fought for Israel. See Exodus 14:25 ; Numbers 23:8-12 , Numbers 23:19-21 ; 1 Samuel 4:8 . There is a passage in Virgil, Eclog. iv., ver. 58, very similar to this saying of Moses: - Pan Deus Arcadia mecum si judice certet, Pan etiam... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom - The Jews are as wicked and rebellious as the Sodomites; for by the vine the inhabitants of the land are signified; see Isaiah 5:2 , Isaiah 5:7 . Their grapes - Their actions, are gall and worm-wood-producing nothing but mischief and misery to themselves and others. Their clusters are bitter - Their united exertions, as well as their individual acts, are sin, and only sin, continually. That by vine is meant the people, and by grapes their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine - Their system of doctrines and teaching, is the poison of dragons, etc., fatal and destructive to all them who follow it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:34

Sealed up among my treasures? - Deeds or engagements by which persons were bound at a specified time to fulfill certain conditions, were sealed and laid up in places of safety; so here God's justice is pledged to avenge the quarrel of his broken covenant on the disobedient Jews, but the time and manner were sealed in his treasures, and known only to himself. Hence it is said: - read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:35

Their foot shall slide in due time, etc. - But Calmet thinks that this verse is spoken against the Canaanites, the enemies of the Jewish people. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:36

The Lord shall judge his people - He has an absolute right over them as their Creator, and authority to punish them for their rebellions as their Sovereign; yet he will repent himself - he will change his manner of conduct towards them, when he seeth that their power is gone - when they are entirely subjugated by their adversaries, so that their political power is entirely destroyed; and there is none shut up or left - not one strong place untaken, and not one family left, all being carried... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:37

He shall say - He shall begin to expostulate with them, to awaken them to a due sense of their ingratitude and rebellion. This may refer to the preaching of the Gospel to them in the latter days. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I-am he - Be convinced that God alone can save, and God alone can destroy, and that your idols can neither hurt nor help you. I kill, and I make alive, etc. - My mercy is as great as my justice, for I am as ready to save the penitent as I was to punish the rebellious. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:32

Verse 32 32.For their vine is of the vine of Sodom. I think it was far from the intention of Moses, as some make it to be, to refer to the punishment which the Israelites deserved; but that he rather inveighs against their corrupted morals, and obstinate disposition. But metaphorically he calls them an offshoot from the vine of Sodom and Gomorrah, inasmuch as they resemble in their nature both those nations, as much as if they had sprung from them, just as grafts of the vine produce fruits... read more

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