Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:5
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
5. I have led you, etc.] So Amo 2:10; cp. above Deu 2:7, Deu 8:2. I, here the speaker’s personality, is merged in that of the Deity; for other instances see on Deu 7:4. But LXX has .
your clothes, etc.] Varied from Deu 8:4. With Sam. LXX read your shoes and your feet.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 5. Your clothes are not waxen old] See Clarke on De 8:4.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
So far that it was necessary for you to throw them away, and to get new ones. See on “Deu 8:4“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness,…. From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number. Eupolemus d, an Heathen writer, confirms this date of the ministry of Moses among the Israelites; he says, Moses performed the office of a prophet forty years:
your clothes are not waxen old upon you: were not worn out; all those forty years they had been in the wilderness, they had never wanted clothes fitting for them, according to their age and stature, and which decayed not; [See comments on De 8:4];
and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot; which were necessary to wear in travelling, and especially in a rugged wilderness; and yet, thought they had been always in use during so long a time, were not worn out, which was really miraculous; [See comments on De 8:4].
d Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
With the appeal to the gracious guidance of Israel by God through the desert, the address of Moses passes imperceptibly into an address from the Lord, just as in Deu 11:14. (On Deu 29:5, Deu 29:6, vid., Deu 8:3-4; on Deu 29:7, vid., Deu 2:26., and Deu 3:1. and Deu 3:12.).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
5. And I have led you. He descends to the blessings with which He had continually visited His people during the course of forty years. Yet he does not recount them all, but contents himself with a few of the most remarkable instances, viz., that their clothes had not been worn out by age, and that they had been fed from heaven, when no sustenance was to be obtained from the fruits of the earth. He reminds them that God’s glory had been manifested by these testimonies, in order that they might submit themselves to His rule.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(5) See on Deu. 8:4.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
5. Forty years in the wilderness Comp. Deu 1:3; Deu 8:2.
Your clothes are not waxen old See note on Deu 8:4.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
What less than a standing miracle was this, that Israel was fed, clothed, and strengthened, through forty years, when their garments waxed not old, and the very sandals, with which they came out of Egypt, did not wear out amidst the rugged road of the wilderness. And what is it now, but the continuation of the same miraculous power, which is displayed in sustaining the spiritual Israel through all their wilderness state, by which their souls are fed with the bread of life, and the garments of salvation by JESUS remain unsullied, through a world of sin and corruption both within and without them.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Deu 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Ver. 5. Your clothes. ] See Trapp on “ Deu 8:4 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
not waxen old. See Ch. Deu 8:4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I have led: Deu 1:3, Deu 8:2
your clothes: Deu 8:4, Neh 9:21, Mat 6:31, Mat 6:32
and thy shoe: Jos 9:5, Jos 9:13, Mat 10:10
Reciprocal: Exo 7:7 – General Deu 2:7 – these forty
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 29:5-6. Your clothes waxed not old See on Deu 8:4.
Ye have not eaten bread Common bread purchased by your own money, procured by your own labour, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread. Neither have ye drunk wine But only water out of the rock, and the water was made both pleasant and refreshing. The meaning is, that they were not nourished by the ordinary means of sustenance, but were constantly supported by a miraculous supply from God, who graciously fed them for a course of years without any labour of their own. That I am the Lord That I am Jehovah, that is, the Being who can bring to pass whatever I will, (see on Exo 6:3,) omnipotent and all-sufficient to provide for you without the help of any creatures, and your God, in covenant with you, who have a true affection to you, and a fatherly care of you.