6<\/strong>. unto thousands, of them<\/em>, &c.] i.e. not thousands consisting of<\/em> them that love me, but (notice the comma added in RV.) thousands belonging<\/strong> to them that love me (Heb. l<\/em> e<\/em>, just as in v.<\/em> 5, properly ‘ belonging to<\/strong> them that hate me’). The antithesis is between the narrow limits, the third or fourth generation of descendants, within which the sin is visited, and the thousands belonging to<\/em>, i.e. primarily, descended from, though possibly those ‘belonging to’ in a wider sense, as servants or other dependents, may be included, such as love God, who, in virtue of this relation, and for the sake of those who thus love Him, experience His mercy. The intention of the passage is thus to teach that God’s mercy transcends in its operation His wrath: in His providence the beneficent consequences of a life of goodness extend indefinitely further than the retribution which is the penalty of persistence in sin. Naturally ‘thousands’ is not to be understood literally: it is simply intended to convey an impressive idea of the greatness of God’s mercy. It is not apparent how it can mean (RVm.) ‘a thousand generations’: Deu 7:9<\/span> is a rhetorical amplification, not an exact interpretation, of the present passage.<\/p>\n that love me<\/em> ] shew towards Him the pure and intense affection and devotion which we denote by the term ‘love.’ The thought is one strongly characteristic of Deuteronomy. ‘Love to God is in Dt. the essence of religion, and the primary motive for obedience to His commands. In no other stratum of the Hexateuch is this lofty conception of religion to be found’ (B.). See Deu 6:5<\/span> [Mar 12:30<\/span>, Luk 10:27<\/span> ], Deu 10:12<\/span>, Deu 11:1<\/span>; Deu 11:13<\/span>; Deu 11:22<\/span>, Deu 13:3<\/span>, Deu 19:9<\/span>, Deu 30:6<\/span>; Deu 30:16<\/span>; Deu 30:20<\/span>, Jos 22:5<\/span>; Jos 23:11<\/span> both Deuteronomic); and cf. the writer’s Deuteronomy<\/em>, pp. xxi, xxviii, lxxviii, 91. Love to God is not mentioned elsewhere in the Hexateuch, except in the parallel, Deu 5:10<\/span> (cf. Exo 7:19<\/span>: see, however, Jdg 5:30<\/span>).<\/p>\n It is, of course, not through extraordinary or miraculous interferences that the sins of parents are visited upon their children, but through the natural<\/em> providence of God, operating through the normal<\/em> constitution of society, which in its turn takes its organization and form from the character of human nature, which is His appointment. History and experience alike teach how often, and under what varied conditions, it happens that the misdeeds of a parent result in bitter consequences for the children. The principle here asserted is not in conflict with Deu 24:6<\/span> (children not to be put to death for the fathers): the legislator is not there dealing with a principle involved in the constitution of society itself; he is laying down a rule for the administration of justice by the State. See, on the distinction between the two cases, Mozley’s Ruling Ideas in Early Ages<\/em>, Lect. V.<\/p>\n Verse 6<\/span>. And showing mercy unto thousands<\/B><\/I>] Mark; even those who love God and keep his commandments merit<\/I> nothing from him, and therefore the salvation and blessedness which these enjoy come from the mercy<\/I> of God: Showing mercy<\/I>, c. What a disproportion between the works of justice<\/I> and mercy<\/I>! Justice<\/I> works to the third<\/I> or fourth, mercy<\/I> to thousands<\/I> of generations!<\/P> <\/P> The heathen had maxims like these. Theocritus also teaches that the children of the good shall be blessed because of their parents’ piety, and that evil shall come upon the offspring of the wicked: – <\/P> , ‘ .<\/P> Idyll. 26, v. 32.<\/P> <\/P> Upon the children of the righteous fall<\/P> The choicest blessings on the wicked, wo. <\/P> That love me, and keep my commandments.<\/B><\/I>] It was this that caused Christ to comprise the fulfilment of the whole law in love<\/I> to God and man; See Clarke on Ex 20:1<\/span>. And as love is the grand principle of obedience, and the only incentive to it, so there can be no obedience<\/I> without it. It would be more easy even in Egyptian bondage to make brick without straw, than to do the will of God unless his love be shed abroad in the heart of the Holy Spirit. Love<\/I>, says the apostle, is the fulfilling of the<\/I> law<\/I>; Ro 13:10<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Unto thousands, <\/B>to wit, of their generations, i.e. for ever; whereas his punishment extended only to three or four of them: so far is Gods mercy exalted above his justice. Compare Psa 103:17<\/span>. <\/P> Them that love me, and keep my commandments:<\/B> this conjunction is very observable, both against those that falsely and foolishly pretend or insinuate that the inward affection of love to God is not absolutely and always necessary to salvation; and also against them who, pretending inward love to God, live in the customary breach of Gods known commands. <\/P> <\/p>\n And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me<\/strong>,…. And show their love by worshipping God, and him only, by serving him acceptably with reverence and godly fear, by a cheerful obedience to all his commands, by all religious exercises, both internal and external, as follows:<\/p>\n and keep my commandments<\/strong>; not only this, but all others; for keeping these from right principles, and with right views, is an instance and evidence of love to God, see Joh 14:15<\/span> and to such persons he shows mercy and kindness, performs acts of grace, and bestows on them blessings of goodness; and indeed it is owing to his own grace, mercy, and kindness to them, that they do love him, and from a principle of love observe his precepts; and this is shown to thousands, to multitudes, who are blessed with such grace as to love the Lord, and keep his commandments: though rather this is to be understood of a thousand generations, and not persons, and should have been supplied, as in the preceding verse, “unto a thousand generations”, God being more abundant in showing mercy, and exercising grace and goodness, than he is rigorous in inflicting punishment.<\/p>\n (6) Shewing mercy unto thousands.<\/strong>Rather, to the thousandth generation, <\/em>as is distinctly expressed in Deu. 7:9<\/span>. Gods mercy infinitely transcends His righteous anger. Sin is visited on three, or at most four, generations. Righteousness is remembered, and advantages descendants, for ever.<\/p>\n 6<\/strong>. <\/strong> Showing mercy <\/strong> Or, doing kindness<\/em> .<\/em> <\/em> His lovingkindness and favour are never withheld from the good and obedient . <\/p>\n Unto thousands <\/strong> Some would understand generations <\/em> here, as after third <\/em> and fourth <\/em> in the previous verse . So superabundant is Jehovah’s kindness that he gladly will extend it to the thousandth generation of them that love <\/strong> him and keep <\/strong> his commandments<\/strong>. The expression, however, is best understood as general in its fulness of meaning . His kindness toward the loving and obedient is for all and for ever . Comp . Exo 34:6-7<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 6. Unto thousands.<\/strong> ] Of succeeding generations. Personal goodness is profitable to posterity. And this promise, though made to all, yet is more specially annexed to this second commandment; to teach, saith one, that parents should chiefly labour to plant piety in their families, as they would have God’s blessing entailed upon their issue. See Trapp (for summary of Law) on “<\/em> Exo 20:17 “<\/em> <\/p>\n showing: Deu 4:37, Deu 5:29, Deu 7:9, Jer 32:39, Jer 32:40, Act 2:39, Rom 11:28, Rom 11:29 <\/p>\n love me: Joh 14:15, Joh 14:21, 1Jo 4:19, 1Jo 5:3, 2Jo 1:6 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 34:7 – Keeping Deu 13:17 – and show Deu 23:8 – third generation Deu 30:6 – to love the Lord Jos 22:5 – love Jos 23:11 – love Jdg 5:31 – them that 1Ki 11:35 – I will take 1Ki 21:21 – Behold Neh 1:5 – keepeth Psa 103:17 – unto children’s Psa 145:20 – preserveth Jer 11:4 – Obey Jer 32:18 – showest Dan 9:4 – the great Luk 1:50 – General Rom 8:28 – them Jam 1:12 – them Jam 2:5 – the<\/p>\n 20:6 And shewing mercy unto {e} thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.<\/p>\n (e) So ready is he rather to show mercy than to punish.<\/p>\n And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 6. unto thousands, of them, &c.] i.e. not thousands consisting of them that love me, but (notice the comma added in RV.) thousands belonging to them that love me (Heb. l e, just as in v. 5, properly ‘ belonging to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 20:6”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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