申命纪

本章导言

CHAPTER. V.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 5:5

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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.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 5:9

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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.

申命纪 5:11

Ver. 11. In vain, by perjury. See v. 20, where the same word is used, (D.) or by any irreverent speech. M.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 5:18

Ver. 18. Adultery. Under this name God forbids every species of impurity. S.

Aug. q. 71. M.

申命纪 5:20

Ver. 20. False. Hebrew shave, "vain," is synonymous with sheker, "false," used Ex. xx. 16.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 5:23

Ver. 23. You said, by the mouths of your princes. Ex. xx. 19.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 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.

申命纪 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.