John Calvin on Deuteronomy 10:21-22

21. He is thy praise. That he may the more easily persuade his countrymen that nothing is better, or more desirable for them than to devote themselves to God’s service, Moses reminds them that they have nothing to boast of out of Him; as if he had said, that they were happy in this one respect, that God had taken them under His charge; but that if this glory were to be taken away, they would be miserable and ruined. For God is called “the praise” of His people, as being their honor and their ornament. Consequently, if they desire to enjoy true and solid blessedness, they must take care to keep themselves under His guardianship; for, if they should be deprived of this, nothing would remain to them but ignominy and shame. To the same effect, he adds, that He is their God; because nothing can be more perverse and absurd than not to receive the Creator of the world Himself, when He freely offers Himself as our God. In proof of this, he subjoins, that He has exerted His power in many miracles for His people’s safety; and, in order that they might be rendered the more inexcusable, he cites their own eyes as witnesses of so many mighty acts which had been wrought in their favor. Thence he goes a step higher, (reminding them, Added from the French. ) that their race had been wondrously increased in a short time; whence it was plain, that they had been thus incredibly multiplied by preternatural and divine influence. For assuredly the signal blessing of God was clearly manifested, in the procreation of seven hundred thousand men in less than two hundred and fifty years. D’un si petit hombre des gens. — Fr. Those who then lived had not seen them with their own eyes; but Moses retraces God’s grace to the fountainhead, that they may more fully acknowledge, that whatever good they had experienced depended on that adoption, which had made them God’s people.

Deuteronomy 11

Deuteronomy 11:1-7

1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God— and keep his charge— and his statutes— and his judgments— and his commandments— alway.

1. Dilige igitur Jehovam Deum tuum— et custodi custodiam ejus— et statuta ejus— et judicia ejus— et praecepta ejus omnibus diebus.

2. And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known— and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God— his greatness— his mighty hand— and his stretched-out arm—

2. Et scitote hodie— non enim cure filiis vestris loquor— qui non noverunt— neque viderunt eruditionem Jehovae Dei vestri— magnitudinem ejus— manum ejus validam— et brachium ejus extentum—

3. And his miracles— and his acts— which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt— and unto all his land;

3. Et signa ejus— et opera ejus quae fecit in medio Aegypti— ipsi Pharaoni regi Aegypti— et universae terrae ejus.

4. And what he did unto the army of Egypt— unto their horses— and to their chariots: how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them— as they pursued after you— and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;

4. Et quae fecit exercitui Aegyptiorum— equis ejus et curribus ejus: qui inundare fecit aquas maris rubri super fades eorum— dum vos persequerentur: et perdidit eos Jehova usque in hanc diem.

5. And what he did unto you in the wilderness— until ye came into this place;

5. Quae praeterea fecit vobis in deserto donec veniretis usque ad locum istum.

6. And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram— the sons of Eliab— the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth— and swallowed them up— and their households— and their tents— and all the substance that was in their possession— in the midst of all Israel.

6. Et quae fecit Datham et Abiram filiis Eliab filii Ruben— quando aperuit terra os suum— deglutivit eos— domosque eorum ac tabernacula eorum— atque universam substantiam quae erat in pedibus eorum— in medio totius Israelis.

7. But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

7. Quandoquidem oculi vestri viderunt omnia opera Jehovae magna quae fecit.