Introduction
REVIEW OF JEHOVAH’S MERCIFUL DEALINGS WITH THE PEOPLE WARNING AGAINST FORGETFULNESS OF HIM.
After their long wandering in the wilderness, when they should enter into possession of a land of abundance, with houses that others had builded and vineyards that others had planted, with the prospect of unbounded prosperity, the people might be inclined to forget Jehovah their God. There would be the peril not only of adopting the idolatrous practices of the nations with whom they would be brought in contact, but also of trusting in themselves, and ascribing their success to their own efforts. Moses, in narrating the past and in portraying the future, aims to guard the people against the perils of prosperity.
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