申命記 28:36-46 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-48

The curse. Like the blessing, the curse is a reality. It cleaves to the sinner, pursues him, hunts him down, ruins and slays him ( Deuteronomy 28:45 ). Does some one say, "An exploded superstition"? If so, it is a superstition in the belief of which mankind has shown itself singularly unanimous. View its reality as attested: 1. By conscience . The criminal cannot divest himself of the belief that avenging powers are following on his track. 2. By experience . "Rarely,"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The curse . In case of disobedience and apostasy, not only would the blessing be withheld, but a curse would descend, blighting, destructive, and ruinous. As the blessing was set forth in six announcements ( Deuteronomy 28:3-6 ), the curse is proclaimed in form and number corresponding ( Deuteronomy 28:16-19 ). The curse thus appears as the exact counterpart of the blessing. The different forms in which the threatened curse should break forth are then detailed in five groups. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Love veiled in frown. Probably many may think that this is one of the most awful chapters in the Word of God. Certainly we are not aware of any other in which there is such a long succession of warnings, increasing in terror as they advance. In fact, Matthew Henry tells us of a wicked man who was so enraged at reading this chapter that he tore the leaf out of his Bible! Impotent rage! Impotent as if, when a man dreaded an eclipse of the sun, he were to tear up the announcements thereof. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

A nation becoming a beacon. If Mount Gerizim had the weight cf. the people on the side of the blessing, Mount Ebal had certainly the weight of the deliverance. No wonder the Law was to be written on its rocky tablets, since the major part of the Law consists in such denunciation of possible disobedience as might serve to render it improbable. As Dr. Arnold has said, "As if, too, warning were far more required than encouragement, we find that the blessings promised for obedience bear a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:35-46

Third group . Moses reverts to the calamities already threatened ( Deuteronomy 28:27 ), for the purpose of leading on the thought that, as such diseases separated the sufferer from the society of his fellows, so Israel should be separated from God and brought under the dominion of strangers as a punishment for rebellion and apostasy. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:36-37

As a consequence, God would bring them under subjection to a foreign power, and they should be made to serve other gods, wood and stone ( Deuteronomy 4:28 ), and would become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among the nations (cf. 1 Kings 9:7 ; Jeremiah 24:9 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:37-42

God, Ruler in nature. I. NATURAL OBJECTS ARE OF HIS CREATION . The Psalmist bids us lift up our eyes to the hills, and seek help from God, "who made heaven and earth" ( Psalms 121:2 ). It is this which enables him to help us, and makes it reasonable in us to implore and trust in his assistance; as well as leads us to fear his displeasure. Seed, vineyards, olive trees, are his creatures, and subserve his purposes. He who made can destroy. II. NATURAL AGENCIES ARE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:38

Even in their own land the curse would overtake them and rest upon them in all their interests and relations. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms ; probably the vine weevil, the convolvulus or involvulus of the Latin writers (Pliny, 'Nat. Hist.,' 17.47; Care, ' De Re Rust.,' c. 95; Plaut; 'Cistell.,' 4.2), the ἴξ or ἴψ of the Greeks (Bochart, 'Hieroz.,' pt. it. bk. 4. c. 27). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:40

Thine olive shall cast his fruit. Some would render here "shall be plundered or rooted out," taking the verb יִשַּׁל as the Niph. of שָׁלַל ; but the majority regard it as part of the verb נָשַׁל , and render "shall drop off," or as in the Authorized Version. There is some doubt, however, whether the verb נָשַׁל can be used intransitively. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-48

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:35-46

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:36-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:37-42

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:38

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:39

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:40

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