Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:4

Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

4. Cp. Deu 7:13, and notes there on increase and young.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 4. Fruit of thy body] All thy children. Increase of thy kine, c. every animal employed in domestic and agricultural purposes shall be under the especial protection of Divine Providence.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body,…. Their children, of which they should have many, and these live; be healthful, thrive, and arrive to manhood, and increase and perpetuate their families. Grotius thinks this was eminently fulfilled in Mary, the mother of our Lord; see Lu 1:42;

and the fruit of thy ground; of their gardens, orchards, and fields; grass for the cattle, and the wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates for the use of men:

and the fruit of thy cattle; which being distinguished from oxen and sheep in the following clause, must be understood of camels and asses, which were used for the carriage both of persons and burdens, and were very serviceable, and were a considerable part of their substance in those countries; see Job 1:3;

the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep; of their cows and oxen, and of their sheep and goats, which were very increasing creatures, and in the increase of which much of their outward happiness lay; see Ps 144:13.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deu 28:4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Ver. 4. The fruit of thy body. ] Which is thy chief possession; but without my blessing will be bitter sweets, a “Blessed is the man that hath his quiver full of such as are the arrows of a strong man,” Psa 128:3-4 the knottiness of whose nature is refined and reformed, and made smooth by grace. Arrows be not arrows by growth, but by art: what can better preserve Jacob from confusion, or his face from waxing pale, than when he shall see his children, the work of God’s hands, framed and fitted by the word in regeneration, and the duties of new obedience? This will make him to sanctify God, even to sanctify the Holy One, and with singular encouragement from the God of Israel. Isa 29:22-23

a Dulcis acerbitas, amarissima voluptas. – Tertul.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)