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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-10

These verses may be considered either as a conditional promise or as an absolute prediction. I. They are chiefly to be considered as a conditional promise, and so they belong to all persons and all people, and not to Israel only; and the design of them is to assure us that the greatest sinners, if they repent and be converted, shall have their sins pardoned, and be restored to God's favour. This is the purport of the covenant of grace, it leaves room for repentance in case of misdemeanour, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:5

And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it ,.... That the Jews upon their conversion in the latter day will return to the land of Judea again, and possess it, is the sense of many passages of Scripture; among others, see Jeremiah 30:18 ; the above Targum is;"the Word of the Lord will bring thee, &c.;" and he will do thee good ; both in things temporal and spiritual; see Ezekiel 34:24 , and multiply thee above thy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed ,.... No mention is made of circumcision of the flesh, which will now be out of use with the Jews; they being fully convinced of the abrogation of the ceremonial law by the Messiah, whom they will now receive. It is spiritual circumcision only that is here spoken of, with which the Jews will be circumcised, when they shall be pricked and cut to the heart, and be thoroughly convinced of sin; when the iniquity of their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:7

And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies ,.... Recorded in Deuteronomy 28:16 ; that is, the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan; for he being now sought unto, and embraced, will be their King and their Saviour, and revenge their enemies: and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee : the Turks and Papists, the former having taken possession of their land, and the latter being violent persecutors of them in all their countries. This will be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:8

And thou shall return, and obey the voice of the Lord ,.... In the Gospel; obey the form of doctrine delivered to them, embrace the truth of the Gospel cordially, and yield a cheerful subjection to the ordinances of it; or receive the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan, Christ, the essential Word, by faith, as the Saviour and Redeemer, Mediator, Prophet, Priest, and King: and do all his commandments which I command thee this day ; the commandment nigh unto them, in their mouths... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:9

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand ,.... In every manufacture, trade, or business of life in which they should be employed; the meaning is, that the Lord will greatly bless them in all that they shall set their hands to in a lawful way; so that they shall abound in good things, and have enough and to spare, a redundancy of the good things of life, great plenty of them: in the fruit of thy body ; abundance of children: and in the fruit of thy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:10

If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God ,.... Or rather, "for thou shalt hearken" F16 כי תשמע "quia obedies", Cocceius. ; seeing it is before promised that the Lord would circumcise their hearts to love him, and they should obey his voice, Deuteronomy 30:6 . The Targum is,"receive the Word of the Lord:" to keep his commandments and his statutes, which are written in this book of the law ; particularly in this chapter, and all that are of a moral nature: ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:5

Will bring thee into the land - As this promise refers to a return from a captivity in which they had been scattered among all nations, consequently it is not the Babylonish captivity which is intended; and the repossession of their land must be different from that which was consequent on their return from Chaldea. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:6

God will circumcise thine heart - This promise remains yet to be fulfilled. Their heart, as a people, has never yet been circumcised; nor have the various promises in this chapter been ever yet fulfilled. There remaineth, therefore, a rest for this people of God. Now, as the law, properly speaking, made no provision for the circumcision of the heart, which implies the remission of sins, and purification of the soul from all unrighteousness; and as circumcision itself was only a sign of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:6

Verse 6 6.And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart. This promise far surpasses all the others, and properly refers to the new Covenant, for thus it is interpreted by Jeremiah, who introduces God thus speaking, — “Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, which covenant they brake, but I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts.”... read more

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