17<\/strong>. the likeness<\/em> ] Again tabnth<\/em>.<\/p>\n winged fowl<\/em> ] Heb. bird of wing<\/em>: cp. P, Gen 7:14<\/span>; Gen 1:21<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 17<\/span>. The likeness of any beast, c.<\/B><\/I>] Such as the Egyptian god Apis<\/I>, who was worshipped under the form of a white bull<\/I> the ibis<\/I> and hawk<\/I>, among the FOWLS, had also Divine honours paid to them; serpents<\/I> and the crocodile<\/I> among REPTILES; besides monkeys<\/I>, dogs, cats<\/I>, the scarabaeus, leeks<\/I>, and onions<\/I>! See this explained at large, See Clarke on <\/span>Ex 20:4<\/span><\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Whereby the heathen nations did represent and worship God, some by an ox, some by a goat, or a hen, or a serpent, or a fish, &c. <\/P> <\/p>\n The likeness of any beast that is on the earth<\/strong>,…. As there are scarce any but the likeness of them has been made and worshipped, or the creatures themselves, as the ox by the Egyptians, the sheep by the Thebans, the goat by the Mendesians, and others by different people:<\/p>\n the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air<\/strong>; as the hawk, and the bird called Ibis, and another by the name of Cneph by the Egyptians, and the eagle by others.<\/p>\n They were also not to make an image of any kind of beast; a caution against imitating the animal worship of Egypt.<\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>17-19. <\/strong>The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> It is justly observed by Dr. Chandler, in his Vindication, p. 480 that this is the very picture of Egypt, which had gods of all sorts; dead persons deified, male and female, and numerous images of them; and which worshipped as deities, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, birds, the ibis and hawk, serpents, crocodiles, river-horses, together with the sun, moon, and stars of heaven; and, therefore, Moses adds, ver. 20 but the Lord hath taken, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto<\/em> him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day: <\/em>plainly intimating their redemption from these Egyptian idolatries to be the establishment of a peculiar kingdom to himself. And, in truth, that worship of almost all sorts of brute beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, was so horribly absurd and stupid, that it could never enter into the heart of a legislator to forbid it, unless he had been himself a witness to these mean and monstrous absurdities. See Exo 20:4<\/span>. Concerning these false gods of Egypt, we refer the reader to the incomparable Pantheon of Egypt by Jablonski. <\/p>\n Deu 4:17 The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,<\/p>\n Ver. 17. The likeness of any beast.<\/strong> ] Which was a piece of the Egyptian madness. Israel, by being there, had learned to set up one calf, Jeroboam two.<\/p>\n In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Exo 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered. Rom 1:23 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 34:30 – and I being Jer 27:5 – and have<\/p>\n The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 17. the likeness ] Again tabnth. winged fowl ] Heb. bird of wing: cp. P, Gen 7:14; Gen 1:21. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Verse 17. The likeness of any beast, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 4:17”<\/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-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","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=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"