The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Deuteronomy 30:15-20I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. Life and good, death and evil1. The matter propounded. Life as the end, good as the means leading to life; or else, life, that is, the enjoyment of God; and good, the felicity following it.2. The manner of proposing. Here is good and evil, life and death, put together, that we may embrace the one and eschew the other. As the poets feign of Hercules when he was young, virtue and vice came to woo and make court... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 30:1-20
Deuteronomy 30:5 . The Lord thy God will bring thee into the land, when thou art penitent, by the marvellous munificence of Darius, and of Cyrus his nephew. What a luminous vision of future things! The Jews and many christians hope for a second gathering in the latter day. See notes on the last ten chapters of Ezekiel. Deuteronomy 30:6 . Circumcise thy heart, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. Love, perfect love, is the consummation of the law. Here is proof that the temporal... read more