Verse 22
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you ,.... Not the next generation, but in future times, in ages to come, at a great distance, even after the destruction of Judea by the Romans; to which Deuteronomy 29:23 seems to refer:
and the stranger that shall come from a far land ; on trade and business, or for the sake of travelling, his road either lying through it, or his curiosity leading him to see it:
shall say, when they see the plagues of the land ; cities and towns in ruins, fields lie uncultivated, and the whole land depopulated, and all become a barren wilderness, which was once a fruitful country, a land flowing with milk and honey:
and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it ; upon the inhabitants of it, as the pestilence and other diseases, which shall have swept the land of them; see Deuteronomy 28:22 . This case supposes a general departure from the worship of God to the service of idols; otherwise single individuals are punished in their own persons, as in the Deuteronomy 29:21 .
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