Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-68
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now enlarges and gives the blessings and curses in detail (cf. Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0.) The blessings are declared in fourteen verses; the curses require nearly four times as many. Thus here again the curse is the more conspicuous feature in the law Speak. Com. Obedience the condition of blessing and this is repeated at beginning (Deuteronomy 28:2) middle (29) and close (Deuteronomy 28:13-14) in positive and energetic form.Deuteronomy 28:1-6. Blessings actual... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 28:10
i.e. That you are in deed and truth his people and children: see Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 26:18. For to be called ofttimes signifies to be, as Isaiah 47:1,Isaiah 47:5; Isaiah 56:7; Matthew 5:9,Matthew 5:19; Matthew 21:13. read more