申命記 8:3-4 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:2-6

The uses of adversity. It is a great matter when in any experience of life we can read the Divine purpose in bringing us through it. The speaker in these verses unfolds the design and lessons of the wilderness discipline. Our Lord, in the temptation, found an application to himself ( Matthew 4:4 ). Every believer will find the same in seasons of adversity. I. ADVERSITY A DIVINE ORDINANCE . ( Deuteronomy 8:2 .) 1. Divinely sent . "The Lord thy God led thee" (cf. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:3

God humbled the Israelites by leaving them to suffer hunger from the want of food, and then supplying them with food in a miraculous manner. They were thus taught that their life depended wholly on God, who could, by his own creative power, without any of the ordinary means, provide for the sustaining of their life. And fed thee with manna (cf. Exodus 16:15 ). It is in vain to seek to identify this with any natural product. It was something entirely new to the Israelites—a thing which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:3

Not bread, but God's Word. The lesson of the manna gathered up into one concise sentence. It teaches us— I. TO SEE GOD IN SECONDARY CAUSES . The Word of God is as truly the creative and nourishing principle in ordinary bread as it was in the extraordinary supply of manna. It is not bread, as something subsisting independently, but bread as the product of Divine power, and as possessing properties which the Word of God imparts to it and upholds in it, which is the staff of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:4

As the manna furnished by God's creative power saved them from hunger, so by God's providence and care their raiment was marvelously kept from decay, and they had not to go barefoot from their sandals being worn out. Waxed not old upon thee; literally, d i d not fall away , waste away from upon thee . This cannot mean that such was the abundant supply of raiment to the Israelites in the Arabian desert, that there was no need for them to wear garments rent and tattered from long use, as... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 8:3

But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord - literally, “every outgoing of the mouth of the Lord.” Compare Deuteronomy 29:5-6. The term “word” is inserted by the King James Version after the Septuagint, which is followed by Matthew and Luke (see the marginal references). On the means of subsistence available to the people during the wandering, see Numbers 20:1 note. The lesson was taught, that it is not nature which nourishes man, but God the Creator by and through nature:... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 8:4

They had clothes, it would seem, in abundance (compare Exodus 12:34-35) at the beginning of the 40 years; and during those years they had many sheep and oxen, and so must have had much material for clothing always at command. No doubt also they carried on a traffic in these, as in other commodities, with the Moabites and the nomadic tribes of the desert. Such ordinary supplies must not be shut out of consideration, even if they were on occasions supplemented by extraordinary providences of God,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 8:3

Deuteronomy 8:3. By every word of the Lord doth man live By every, or any thing which God appoints and blesses for this end, how unlikely soever it may seem to be for the support and nourishment of the human frame. For it is not the creature, without God, that is sufficient for the support of life; it is only his command and blessing that makes it sufficient. We ought not, therefore, to fix our dependance, as we are prone to do, on natural causes, but to remember that we depend, absolutely,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 8:4

Deuteronomy 8:4. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee The common interpretation of these words is, that, by a constant miracle, their clothes did not so much as decay, nor their foot swell, or, as some render it, grow callous, by so long travelling in hot and stony places. But Le Clerc thinks “it is hardly to be imagined that Moses, whose principal intention was to record the miracles which God wrought for the Israelites in the wilderness, should have mentioned this so transiently, and,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:1-20

The promised land (7:1-8:20)Israel’s responsibility was to destroy the people of Canaan along with everything connected with their religion, so that nothing would remain in the land that might corrupt God’s people (7:1-5). Israel’s favoured place as God’s chosen people was not an excuse for them to do as they liked, but a reason for them to avoid corruption and be holy. If they were disobedient, they would surely be punished (6-11). But if they were obedient, they would enjoy the blessings of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 8:3

manna. See note on Exodus 16:31 . man. Hebrew. 'adam. This verse quoted by Christ. Matthew 4:4 .Luke 4:4 . by. Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 ) = "by [eating] bread". bread = food, by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6 , by every. Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 ) = "by [keeping] every word": or by obeying. mouth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:2-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 8:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 8:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 8:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 8:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:1-20

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 8:3

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