Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 4:6

6 Keep therefore, and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations , which shall hear all these statutes, and say, surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

For though the generality of Heathen people in the later and degenerate ages of the world did through inveterate prejudices and for their own lusts and interests condemn the Laws of the Hebrews as foolish and absurd, yet it is most certain, that divers of the wisest heathens did highly approve of them so far that they made use of divers of them and translated them into their own Laws and Constitutions; and Moses, the giver of these Laws, hath been mentioned with great honour for his [illegible: 1+ letters] dom and learning by many of them. And particularly the old Heathen Oracle expresly said, that the Chaldeans or Hebrews, who worshipped the uncreated God, were the onely wise men.

Marginal references: Job 28. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. Psal. 111. 10. Prov. 1. 7.