Deuteronomy 32:32-33 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:26-38

After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners, but would rather they should turn and live. I. In jealousy for his own honour, he will not make a full end of them, Deut. 32:26-28. 1. It cannot be denied but that they deserved to be utterly ruined, and that their remembrance should be made to cease from among... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah ,.... This respects the false Christians in the Roman empire, who should have taken warning by the Jews, and not have embraced such sentiments of theirs, which had been resented by the Lord, and condemned in them; such as the doctrines of man's freewill, of justification and salvation not alone by Christ, but by their own works of righteousness, saying, "our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this", ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons ,.... Of these creatures, both land and sea dragons; see Gill on Micah 1:8 ; See Gill on Malachi 1:3 ; Pliny says F12 Nat. Hist. l. 29. c. 4. the dragon has no poison in it; yet, as Dalechamp, in his notes on that writer observes, he in many places prescribes remedies against the bite of the dragon; but Heliodorus F13 Ethiopic. l. 9. c. 19. p. 438. expressly speaks of some archers, whose arrows were infected with the poison of dragons;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom - The Jews are as wicked and rebellious as the Sodomites; for by the vine the inhabitants of the land are signified; see Isaiah 5:2 , Isaiah 5:7 . Their grapes - Their actions, are gall and worm-wood-producing nothing but mischief and misery to themselves and others. Their clusters are bitter - Their united exertions, as well as their individual acts, are sin, and only sin, continually. That by vine is meant the people, and by grapes their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine - Their system of doctrines and teaching, is the poison of dragons, etc., fatal and destructive to all them who follow it. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:32

Verse 32 32.For their vine is of the vine of Sodom. I think it was far from the intention of Moses, as some make it to be, to refer to the punishment which the Israelites deserved; but that he rather inveighs against their corrupted morals, and obstinate disposition. But metaphorically he calls them an offshoot from the vine of Sodom and Gomorrah, inasmuch as they resemble in their nature both those nations, as much as if they had sprung from them, just as grafts of the vine produce fruits... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:19-33

Because of their rebellion. God would cast them off and visit them with terrible calamities. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:19-47

Vengeance and recompense. The reasonableness of the Divine jealousy being shown already, we can have little difficulty in recognizing the further reasonableness of the Divine vengeance. Paul's treatment of the question is concise and conclusive. "Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man). God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?" ( Romans 3:5 , Romans 3:6 ). Vengeance is recognized, therefore, as belonging to God's justice, which shall be called into play... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:28-33

The cause of Israel's rejection was that they were a people utterly destitute of counsel and without understanding. Had they been wise, they would have looked to the end, and acted in a way conducive to their own welfare, instead of rushing upon ruin. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:29-35

The short-sightedness of sinners. "Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" Such is the moan with which this paragraph begins. By "this" is meant the consequence which will certainly follow on their departure from God. By "their latter end" is meant the latter days of their history, when sins which were beforehand in germ should have wrought out to full development. We need not again recount the historical aspects of this serious... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:26-38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:33

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:32

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:33

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 32:32

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:19-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:19-47

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:28-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:29-35

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