Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 4:20
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Deuteronomy4:20
20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace , even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance , as ye are this day.
(i. e.) The furnace wherein Iron and other Metals are melted, to which Egypt is fitly compared, not only for the Torment and Misery which they there indured, but also because they were throughly tried and purged thereby, as Metals are by the fire.
His peculiar possession from generation to generation, See Exod. 19. 5. Deut. 7. 6. Tit. 2. 14. And therefore for you to forsake God, and worship Idols, will be not only wickedness and madness, but most abominable ingratitude.
Marginal references: 1 King. 8. 51. Jer. 11. 4.
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