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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs. I. In general, it is the use and application of the foregoing history; it comes in by way of inference from it: Now therefore harken, O Israel, Deut. 4:1. This use we should make of the review of God's providences concerning us, we should by them be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:5

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me ,.... He had faithfully delivered them, without adding them, or diminishing from them, and had diligently instructed the Israelites in them, had taken pains to lead them into a thorough knowledge and understanding them: that ye should do so in the land whither ye go possess it ; do in like manner as the commandments the Lord direct to; or that which is right F5 כן "rectum". ; proper and fitting... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:6

Keep therefore and do them ,..... Observe them, take notice of what is expressed by them, and perform them, both as to matter and manner, as they require: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations ; that is, their wisdom and understanding would appear to other nations by their observance of the commands of God: which hear all these statutes ; which they had a report, got knowledge of by some of the philosophers who travelled into those parts, and by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:7

Not so much for their number, for they were the fewest of all people; nor for the largeness of their territories, for the land they were going to possess was but a small country; nor for their wealth and riches, and warlike exploits, though they were not contemptible in either; but for their happy constitution in church and state, being directed and governed in both by laws which came immediately from God himself; for their knowledge of divine things, and for spiritual blessings and privileges... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:8

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous ,.... Founded in justice and equity, and so agreeable to right reason, and so well calculated and adapted to lead persons in the ways of righteousness and truth, and keep them from doing any injury to each other's persons and properties, and to maintain good order, peace, and concord among them: as all this law which I set before you this day ? which he then repeated, afresh declared, explained and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:6

Keep - and do them; for this is your wisdom - There was no mode of worship at this time on the face or the earth that was not wicked, obscene, puerile, foolish, or ridiculous, except that established by God himself among the Israelites. And every part of this, taken in its connection and reference, may be truly called a wise and reasonable service. The nations - and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people - Almost all the nations in the earth showed that they had... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:6

Verse 6 6.Keep therefore, and do them. In order that they may set themselves more cheerfully about the keeping of the Law, and may proceed more steadily in this endeavor, he reminds them that nothing is better or more desirable for themselves. For God is not duly honored, except with ready minds and volutary obedience, to which we are rather attracted by pleasure than forced by rigor and violence. Now, since all desire to excel, he says, that this is the chief excellence of Israel, that they... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:7

Verse 7 7.For what nation is there so great? Moses now repeats in his own name what he had stated in the person of others, as if to shew by additional reasons, that not without cause would the Jews be celebrated in the whole world, because it would actually appear that none were equal to them. He mentions two points, first, because God would be ready to afford them help, as often as they call upon Him; secondly, because He had instructed them in perfect righteousness, beyond which nothing could... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-8

Exhortation to the observance of the Law generally . The Law was to be kept as a complete whole; nothing was to be taken from it or added to it; it comprised the commandments of Jehovah, and therefore they were not only to do it as what Moses, their leader and lawgiver, had enjoined, bat to keep it as a sacred deposit, not to be altered or tampered with, and to observe it as what God their Sovereign had enacted for them. The dignity and worth of the Law are here asserted, and also its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-13

The sacredness of the Divine Law. Law, being the utterance of righteousness, is unalterable as righteousness itself, permanent amid all the mutations of human affairs. Its requirements are statutes, stable as the everlasting hills. I. LAW IS THE VERITABLE VOICE OF GOD ; the manifestation of his thought; the mirror of his mind. "The Lord spake unto you." "Out of the midst of the fire" the flame of holiness and zeal—issues every command. If man's moral nature has an... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-13

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