Deuteronomy 10:12-22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 12-22

Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32 . Resumes Moses’ second address interrupted by the long didactic narrative of Deuteronomy 9:7 b – Deuteronomy 10:11.

Deuteronomy 10:12-Song of Solomon : – Deuteronomy 11 . Reasons why Israel should fear and serve Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 10:12 . Cf. Micah 6:8.

Deuteronomy 10:16 . Physical circumcision implied consecration of the entire man to Yahweh. The verb “ to circumcise” came thus to be used figuratively of the heart ( Deuteronomy 2:30 *) as here (so Deuteronomy 30:6, Jeremiah 4:4), of the lips ( Exodus 6:12), of the ear ( Jeremiah 6:10).

Deuteronomy 10:17 . God of gods and Lord of lords: one form of the Heb. superlative, i.e. the greatest God, lord ( Deuteronomy 3:24 *).— reward: better, “ bribe” (see Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 27:25, Exodus 23:8).

Deuteronomy 10:18 . Render, “ securing justice for the orphan and widow and loving the sojourner” (see Deuteronomy 1:16 *), etc. The three classes mentioned were specially exposed to injustice through bribery, social influence, etc. They are often, therefore, along with the Levites ( Deuteronomy 10:9 *) described as objects of pity and help.

Deuteronomy 10:21 . praise: i.e. object of praise ( Jeremiah 17:14).

Deuteronomy 10:22 . Omit with. The Heb. construction ( beth essentiae) implies that they went down as (not with) seventy persons.— threescore and ten persons: i.e. all the Israelites in Egypt at the time. In Exodus 1:5 (F) it covers all the descendants of Jacob (including Joseph, his sons etc.). In Genesis 46 (P) the two traditions are combined.

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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