Deuteronomy

1:44. “Chased you as bees do, and destroyed you.” “The sting of death is sin.”

2: 31. The Lord does not give all at once. It is according to our readiness to take that he gives. Chap. 3: 24.

3:23. Moses, Elijah (1 Kings 19:4), and Paul (2 Cor. 12: 8) all prayed; but God answered in his own way.

6: 6. Consecration in the heart first.

12. Full flesh often causes heart failure. So prosperity

often proves a danger to piety.

16: The holy feasts were (in general) appointed for these ends and uses: —

1. To distinguish the people of God from

other nations.

2. To keep afoot the remembrance of the

benefits already received.

3. To be a type and figure of benefits yet further to be conferred upon them by Christ.

4. To unite God’s people in holy worship.

5. To preserve purity in holy worship prescribed by God.

The Passover, Pentecost, and Feast of Tabernacles typify a completed redemption: —

1. By the passion of the cross: Suffering.

2. By the coming of the Holy Spirit: Grace.

3. By the final triumph of the coming King:

Glory.

21:22. “And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death,... and thou hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night upon the tree.”

Only two instances of the observance of this lawfully recorded: Joshua 8: 29 — the wicked king of Ai; and John 19: 31 — the King of Glory.

28: 25. ‘Thou shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.” Over the entrance to a cemetery in New Orleans are these words (in Hebrew):” The dispersed of Judah.”

28: 32. “Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people.” In the horrible persecutions of the Jews by the Romanists in Spain, four centuries ago, their children were stripped from them to be reared in the Popish faith.

33. ‘The fruit of thy land and all thy labors shall a nation which thou knowest not, eat up: and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.” Fulfilled under the Assyrians, and Romans, for centuries, and now fulfilled under the Turks, who, by their misrule, do literally “eat up” the lands they govern.

58, 59. During the scourging of Jewish culprits these two verses used to be read, and, immediately after them, Psalms 78 and 38.

65, 66. The case of every backslider: “Thou shalt find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind.”

29: 5. When the Lord leads, he provides shoe-leather.

19. There is not one of the Christian graces and fruits that the devil does not counterfeit.

19 21. The Lord is absolute in threatening and resolute in punishing.

32:10. Precept: “Keep my law as the apple of thine

eye.” Prov. 7: 2.

Prayer: “Keep me as the apple of thine eye.” Ps. 17: 8.

33: V. 3. “Hand,” — Safety.

“Feet,” — Learning.
V. 12. “Side,” — Fellowship.
” Shoulders, “— Power.
V. 27. “Arms,” — Rest.

29. Saved — shielded — defended.

“Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee,” i. e., thy character shall be restored.

34:4. “This is the land which I sware unto Abraham. ... I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.” This was Moses’s second great disappointment. At the age of forty, he thought the Israelites would choose him as their leader.