Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 14:1-21
Moses here tells the people of Israel,
I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in Christ blessed us. 1. Here is election: The Lord hath chosen thee, v: 2. Not for their own merit, nor for any good works foreseen, but because he would magnify the riches of his power and grace among them. He did not choose them because they were by their own dedication and subjection a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his grace; and thus were believers chosen, Eph 1:4. 2. Here is adoption (Deu 14:1): "You…
Read the whole note in the consoleJamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 14:15
the cuckow--more probably the sea-gull. [See on Lev 11:16].
John Gill on Deuteronomy 14:12
But these are they of which they shall not eat,.... Jarchi observes, that the unclean birds are particularly mentioned, to teach that the clean sort are more than the unclean, and therefore the particulars of the fewest are given: these are all the same names as in Leviticus 11:13, excepting one, "the glede", Deuteronomy 14:13 which is a kind of kite or puttock; the Jerusalem Targum renders it the vulture, and the Targum of Jonathan the white "dayetha" or vulture; and Aristotle says (q) there are two sorts of vultures, the one small and whiter, the other larger and of many forms or colours; in Hebrew its name here is "raah", and is thought to be the same with "daah" in Leviticus 11:14 there…
Read the whole note in the consoleJohn Calvin on Deuteronomy 14:3-20
Deuteronomy 14:3-20
3. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
3. Non comedes ullam abominationem.
4. These are the beasts which ye shall eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat,
4. Haec sunt animalia quae comedetis: bovem, agnum ovium, et hoedum caprarum,
5. The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
5. Cervum, et capream, et bubalum, et hircum sylvestrem, et damam, et bovem sylvestrem, et capram rupicolam.
6. And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
6. Omne animal findens ungulam, et findens fissuram duarum ungularum,…
