Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:12–end
Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee? Deu 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Psa 116:12), What shall I render? When we have received mercy from God it becomes us to enquire what returns we shall make to him. Consider what he requires, and you will find it is nothing but what is highly just and reasonable in itself and of unspeakable benefit and advantage to you. Let us see here what he does require, and what abundant reason there is why we shoul…
Read the whole note in the consoleJamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart--Here he teaches them the true and spiritual meaning of that rite, as was afterwards more strongly urged by Paul (Rom 2:25, Rom 2:29), and should be applied by us to our baptism, which is "not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God" [Pe1 3:21].
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John Gill on Deuteronomy 10:19
Love ye therefore the stranger,.... Because the Lord loves him; and another reason follows, particularly binding on the Israelites:
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt; and therefore should sympathize with such, and show them compassion, relieve them in distress, and afford them whatever they want, and is in the power of their hands to communicate to them; remembering their own condition in Egypt, and how welcome such a treatment would have been to them then, as well as the kind and careful providence of God towards them at that time.
John Calvin on Deuteronomy 10:17-19
Deuteronomy 10:17-19
17. ...God,...regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
17. Deus non accipit personam, neque recipit munus.
18. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
18. Faciens judicium pupillo et viduae, diligens peregrinum, dando et panem et vestimentum.
19. Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt
19. Diligite igitur peregrinum, quia peregrini fuistis in terra, AEgypti.
He confirms the foregoing decree by a reference to the nature of God Himself; for the vile and abject condition of those with whom we have to do, causes us to injure them the more wantonly, because t…
