Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 16:12
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
12. And thou shalt remember, etc.] See on Deu 15:15. This clause is not relevant to the whole law, but only to the inclusion under it of the bondservant, Deu 16:11. It can hardly be original, and as the rest of the v. is purely formal, the whole is probably secondary.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt,…. And now delivered from that bondage; the consideration of which should make them liberal in their freewill offering, and generous in the feast they provided, and compassionate to the stranger, widow, and fatherless:
and thou shalt observe and do these statutes; concerning the passover, the feast of unleavened bread, and of Pentecost, and the peace offerings and the freewill offerings belonging to them: and nothing could more strongly oblige them to observe them than their redemption from their bondage in Egypt; as nothing more engages to the performance of good works than the consideration of our spiritual and eternal redemption by Christ, 1Co 6:19.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Deu 16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
Ver. 12. And thou shalt remember. ] It is very good to look back and recognise our former worse condition. Agathocles, king of Sicily, being a potter’s son, would be served only in earthen vessels. Willigis, archbishop of Ments, a wheelwright’s son, hung wheels, and the tools wherewith they were made, around his bedchamber, and had these words written upon the walls in very fair characters, Willigis, Willigis, recole uncle veneris, Remember whence thou camest.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
in Egypt. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, have “in the land of Egypt”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Deu 16:15, Deu 15:15, Lam 3:19, Lam 3:20, Rom 6:17, Rom 6:18, Eph 2:1-3, Eph 2:11
Reciprocal: Exo 13:3 – Remember Exo 20:10 – thy stranger Lev 23:14 – it shall be Deu 5:15 – remember Deu 24:18 – General Ezr 7:10 – to do it Jer 34:13 – in the 2Th 3:14 – obey
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 16:12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man This is added to show, 1st, That to remind them of this was one principal end of this feast. 2d, As a motive to engage them to a cheerful obedience to all the other commands of God. 3d, To induce them to regard their poor servants and strangers in this feast.