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Deuteronomy
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Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.” See also: Deuteronomy 4:1Matthew 23:3Deuteronomy 29:10The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. See also: Deuteronomy 4:23Exodus 19:5-8Exodus 24:8The LORD didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today. See also: Deuteronomy 29:10-15Psalms 105:8-10Genesis 17:7The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, See also: Exodus 19:18-19Deuteronomy 34:10Deuteronomy 4:36(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the LORD’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying, See also: Galatians 3:19Exodus 20:18-21Exodus 19:16“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. See also: Exodus 20:2-17Psalms 81:5-10Leviticus 26:1-2“You shall have no other gods before me. See also: Exodus 20:3Matthew 4:101 John 5:21“You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. See also: Exodus 20:4Deuteronomy 4:15-19You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me See also: Exodus 20:4-6Exodus 34:7Numbers 14:18and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. See also: Romans 8:281 John 1:7Jeremiah 32:18“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name. See also: Exodus 20:7Leviticus 19:12Deuteronomy 6:13“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. See also: Exodus 20:8-11Isaiah 58:13Isaiah 56:6You shall labor six days, and do all your work; See also: Ezekiel 20:12Luke 13:14-16Exodus 23:12but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, in which you shall not do any work—neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. See also: Hebrews 4:4Genesis 2:2Exodus 16:29-30You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. See also: Deuteronomy 5:6Deuteronomy 15:15Deuteronomy 16:12“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. See also: Exodus 20:12Ephesians 6:1-3Colossians 3:20“You shall not murder. See also: Exodus 20:13Romans 13:9Matthew 5:21-22“You shall not commit adultery. See also: Exodus 20:14Luke 18:20Leviticus 20:10“You shall not steal. See also: Exodus 20:15Romans 13:9Ephesians 4:28“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. See also: Exodus 20:16Exodus 23:1Proverbs 19:9“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” See also: Exodus 20:17Romans 13:9Luke 12:15The LORD spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me. See also: Exodus 24:12Exodus 31:18Deuteronomy 4:36When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; See also: Exodus 20:18-19Hebrews 12:18-21and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives. See also: Exodus 19:19Deuteronomy 4:33Exodus 33:20Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the LORD our God’s voice any more, then we shall die. See also: Deuteronomy 18:16Hebrews 12:292 Corinthians 3:7-9For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived? See also: Deuteronomy 4:33Romans 3:20Matthew 26:63Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say, and tell us all that the LORD our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.” See also: Exodus 20:19Hebrews 12:19The LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken. See also: Deuteronomy 18:17Numbers 36:5Numbers 27:7Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! See also: Isaiah 48:18Deuteronomy 11:1Ezekiel 33:31-32“Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’ But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.” See also: Galatians 3:19Exodus 24:12Deuteronomy 11:1You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left. See also: Proverbs 4:27Joshua 23:6Joshua 1:7You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess. See also: Jeremiah 7:23Deuteronomy 4:401 Timothy 4:8
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the chapter
CHAPTER. V.
Deuteronomy 5:1
Ver. 1. All Israel: not one was wanting, C. xxix. 10. God enabled all to hear the words of their lawgiver, (M.) by an evident miracle. Jansen. C.
↑ 1Deuteronomy 5:3
Ver. 3. Fathers, the ancient patriarchs, who were not favoured in such a signal manner. M. ---
Though many of those who had heard the words of God at Horeb, were dead, and had not enjoyed the full benefit of the covenant, some still remained, and the children of the deceased were about to enter the land which had been there promised. H. --- God did not make a covenant with the Patriarchs only, but also with their posterity at Horeb. D.
↑ 3Deuteronomy 5:4
Ver. 4. To us. Heb. and Sept. "to you." --- Face to face, in such a manner that no doubt could be entertained of his presence. S. Aug. --- God addressed the decalogue to all the people, who saw no similitude. But to Moses he delivered the rest of his ordinances, with as much familiarity and condescension as one friend would use in speaking to another. Ex. xxxiii. 2. C.
↑ 4Deuteronomy 5:5
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 5. Mediator. S. Paul acknowledges this title of Moses, (Gal. iii. 9,) who was a figure of Jesus Christ, the mediator of the New Testament. Heb. viii. 6. ix. 15.
xii. 24. C. --- Let not Protestants, therefore, reject this title with so much indignation, when it is applied in the like limited sense to the saints, to denote that they pray for us, as we pray for one another. Christ is the one mediator (1
Tim. ii.) of redemption. H.
↑ 5Deuteronomy 5:7
Ver. 7. Sight. Chaldee, "Thou shalt not have any other god but me." Elohim often designates the true God. C. --- See the decalogue explained, (Ex. xx.,) where we have observed, that pictures are only forbidden when they are the objects of sovereign worship, as the context here plainly shews, v. 9. Other images God himself authorized, (W.) even in the old law, and in the most sacred place, where people were ordered to fall prostrate before the ark, to adore his footstool.
Ps. xcviii. 5. If, therefore, a people so prone to idolatry as the Jews were, might have pictures in the temple of God without danger, how can any one suppose that the images of Jesus Christ, and of his saints, are necessary incentive to idolatry among Christians, who all know that God will allow of no rival! H.
↑ 7Deuteronomy 5:9
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 9. Serve. We must neither treat idols, nor their images, with the honour due to God alone.
S. Aug. q. 61. in Gen. --- If we do, he will punish our infidelity. --- Generation, for a long time, or as long as the remembrance of the parents' wickedness subsists, so as to have an influence upon others. H. --- God mercifully defers correction. S. Jer. in Ezec. xvii. He chastises those who imitate their wicked forefathers.
↑ 9Deuteronomy 5:11
Ver. 11. In vain, by perjury. See v. 20, where the same word is used, (D.) or by any irreverent speech. M.
↑ 11Deuteronomy 5:15
Ver. 15. Therefore. This is another reason why the Jews were to observe the sabbath with particular rigour. The institution of a day of rest every week, (H.) was intended to preserve the memory of the creation. C. --- God also requires that his people should be grateful on this day for the rest which he had granted to them, (H.) and preserve carefully all the monuments of the true religion. C.
↑ 15Deuteronomy 5:18
Ver. 18. Adultery. Under this name God forbids every species of impurity. S.
Aug. q. 71. M.
↑ 18Deuteronomy 5:20
Ver. 20. False. Hebrew shave, "vain," is synonymous with sheker, "false," used Ex. xx. 16.
↑ 20Deuteronomy 5:21
Ver. 21. His. Here the Samaritan copy inserts the order for erecting an altar upon Mount Garizim, which we have given, Ex. xx. 27. It occurs below. C.
xxviii. 2, &c. C.
↑ 21Deuteronomy 5:22
Ver. 22. More to the people: the other precepts were communicated to Moses.
The Chaldee and others give a contrary turn to the Heb. "and he ceased not"
ever since to instruct us. C. --- Moses gives the sense, not the very words of the decalogue, in which he is not guilty of any lie. S. Aug.
q. 8. D.
↑ 22Deuteronomy 5:23
Ver. 23. You said, by the mouths of your princes. Ex. xx. 19.
↑ 23Deuteronomy 5:25
Ver. 25. Die. Past experience did not entirely remove from them the fear which was so generally entertained, that the sight of the heavenly beings would prove destructive. So Daniel (C. x. 17,) said on a similar occasion, my breath is stopped. H.
↑ 25Deuteronomy 5:29
Ver. 29. A mind. God speaks like men, and insinuates how agreeable to him is a disposition influenced by a salutary fear. He does not mean that He cannot convert the heart of man. E. ---
God exerts his power over our will by persuasive invitations. Maimonides.
↑ 29Deuteronomy 5:32
Ver. 32. Left: a proverbial expression, to signify that no sort of transgression is to be allowed. M.
--- It is of the same import as, You shall not add, &c. C. iv. 2. C.
↑ 32License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses