Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 5

1 AND Moses called all Israel , and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and Judgments, which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

To wit, by their Elders, who were to impart it to the rest.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].

3 The LORD made not the covenant with our fathers , but with us: even us, who are all of us here alive this day .

Either 1. Not onely with them, the word [illegible: 1 word] being here understood, as it is G[illegible: 1+ letters]. 32. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. and 35. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 1 [illegible: 1 word]. 8. [illegible: 1+ letters]. Ier. 7. 19. and 31. 34. Matt. 9. 13. Or, 2. Not at all with them. But then the word Covenant is not here to be taken for the Covenant of Grace in general, for so it was made with their fathers. Exod. 2. 24. but for this particular and mixed dispensation of the Covenant at [illegible: 1 word] ▪ as appears both by the foregoing and following words.

He saith not, that all who made that Covenant at Sinai are now alive, for many of them were dead, but that this Covenant was made with all that are now alive, which is most true, for it was made with the elder [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] them in their own persons, and with the rest in their Parents, who did covenant for them: for this phrase [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word], is put exclusively as to their fathers, but not [illegible: 1 word] to their posterity, as is evident from the nature of the Covenant, Act. 2. 39. and course of the story.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] Mat. 13. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ Heb. 8. 9.

4 The LORD talked with you face to face , in the mount out of the midst of the fire.

Not in a visible shape▪ which was utterly denyed. [illegible: 1 word] ▪ 4. 12, 15. but personally and immediately not [illegible: 1 word] the [illegible: 1 word] or [illegible: 1 span].

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].

5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD : for ye were afraid, by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount) saying,

As a Mediator or Messenger between you, according to your desire, below v. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. Compare [illegible: 1 word] ▪ 19. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. &c. and 2. 19. Gal. 3. 19.

Not the ten Commandements, which God himself uttered, but the following statutes and judgments.

6 I am the LORD thy God , which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

The Ten Commandements delivered E[illegible: 1+ letters]. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. are here repeated with some small difference of words, but the sence is perfectly the same, and therefore the explication of them must be fetched thence.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].; [illegible: 1 span].

12 [illegible: 1 word] the sabbath-day to sanctifie it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee .

To [illegible: 1 word] ▪ in mind and memory, as it is Exod. 20. 8.

To [illegible: 1 word] ▪ in [illegible: 1 word]. 20. whither he dir[illegible: 1+ letters]ts them, and therefore [illegible: 1+ letters]e [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] the Argument of the Creation, which is urged [illegible: 1 word].

15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1+ letters]nd▪ and by a stretched-out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbathday.

[illegible: 1 span] grudge thy servants their rest upon that day.

21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours wise, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbours house , his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbours.

In Exod. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. the order i[illegible: 1+ letters] contrary, and [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] is put before [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] whereby it is evident▪ that [illegible: 1 word] intended th[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1+ letters]ut for one Commandement▪ wherein the order of the words was an inconsiderable circumstance: for if this were [illegible: 1 word] commandements, as some would have it, it would be altogether uncertain which is the Ninth, and which the Tenth Commandement, seeing the one is first. Exod. 20. and the other here.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].

22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more , and he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

He ceased for that time to speak immediately, and with that loud voice unto the people, for the rest were delivered to M[illegible: 1+ letters]s, and by him communicated to the people. This he did to shew the preeminency of that Law above the rest, and its Everlasting Obligation.

Marginal references: Exod. [illegible: 1+ letters]4. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].

25 Now therefore why should we die ? for this great fire will consume us, If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

For though God hath for this season kept us alive to our admiration, ye[illegible: 1+ letters] we shall never be able to endure any further discourse from him in such a terrible manner, but shall certainly sink under the burden of it. Compare [illegible: 1 word]. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. [illegible: 1 word]. 6. 22.

Marginal references: Heb. add to [illegible: 1 word].

26 For who is there of all flesh , that hath heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire (as we have) and lived▪

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29 O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments alwayes, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Heb. [illegible: 1 word] will give them such an heart? This is spoken of God after the manner of men, to shew that such an heart is desirable to him, and required by him: otherwise it is certain that God can give such an heart, and hath promised to give it, Ier. 32. 4[illegible: 1+ letters]. [illegible: 1 word]. 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 27. And if God will work, who can [illegible: 1+ letters]inder him? Joh 11. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].

Marginal references: Heb. who will give their heart to be such in them.; Chap. 32. 29. Psa. [illegible: 1+ letters]1. 13. Isa. 48. 18. Mat. 23. 3[illegible: 1+ letters].

32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand, or to the left .

Neither by superstitious additions to Gods Commands, nor by a [illegible: 1+ letters]old or prophane rejection or contempt of any one of them.

Marginal references: Chap. 17. [illegible: 1 word]. and 28. 14. Josh. 1. 7.