21<\/strong>. He<\/em> ] in an emphatic position.<\/p>\n thy praise<\/em> ] Either the object of thy praise (cp. Psa 109:1<\/span>, God of my praise<\/em>), or cause of thy fame, thy renown, viz. by the deeds He has done for thee, Jer 17:14<\/span>.<\/p>\n great and terrible things<\/em> ] Deu 4:34<\/span> great terrors<\/em>; cp. Deu 6:22<\/span>, Deu 7:19<\/span>.<\/p>\n which thine eyes have seen<\/em> ] So Deu 4:9<\/span>; Deu 7:19<\/span>; Deu 29:3<\/span> (2), all Sg. as here; but in Deu 29:2<\/span> (1) before your eyes<\/em>; cp. Deu 11:2<\/span>. The nation is regarded as identical through all its generations. See on Deu 4:9<\/span>.<\/p>\n Deu 10:21<\/span><\/p>\n Done for thee these great and terrible things.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The great doings of God<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>In Salvation. God, who delivered Israel from the bondage of Egypt, has wrought a great work of deliverance on behalf of the human race. Greater than any deed of vengeance is the Divine interposition by which mankind is saved from the penalty and the curse of sin.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>In the supply of all wants. The Lord, who gave Israel bread from heaven and water from the flint rock, has made, in the dispensation of His grace, a sufficient supply for the spiritual needs of all mankind.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>In protection and deliverance from all dangers, and from the assaults of every foe.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>By the spectacle of the need, the misery, the helplessness of men.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>By the pity and loving kindness of the Infinite Heart.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>To gratitude and praise. The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad. Bless the Lord, O my soul.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>To cheerful obedience. The memory of Divine favours should not only awaken gladness; it should remind us of Gods claims upon us, upon our love, our life, our all. (Family Churchman.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Praise and obedience<\/strong><\/p>\n He who would serve God must begin by praising God, for a grateful heart is the mainspring of obedience. We must offer the salt of gratitude with the sacrifice of obedience; our lives should be anointed with the precious oil of thankfulness. As soldiers march to music, so while we walk in the paths of righteousness we should keep step to the notes of thanksgiving. Larks sing as they mount, so should we magnify the Lord for His mercies, while we are winging our way to heaven. Our thanksgiving is not a swallow which is gone with the summer. The birds within our bosom sing all the year round, and on such a day as this their song is doubly welcome. The fire of gratitude will help to warm us–heap on the big logs of loving memories. No cold shall freeze the genial current of our soul; our praise shall flow on when brooks and rivers are bound in ice. Let us see who among us can best rejoice in the Lord in all weathers.<\/p>\n Verse 21<\/span>. He is thy praise<\/B><\/I>] It is an eternal honour to any soul to be in the friendship of God. Why are people ashamed of being thought religious? Because they know nothing of religion. He who knows his Maker may glory in his God, for without him what has any soul but disgrace, pain, shame, and perdition? How strange is it that those who fear God should be ashamed to own it, while sinners boldly proclaim their relationship to Satan!<\/P><\/p>\n Thy praise; <\/B>either, <\/P> 1. The object and matter of thy praise, as Exo 15:2<\/span>, whom thou shouldst ever praise. Or rather, <\/P> 2. The ground of thy praise, i.e. of thy praise-worthiness; he who makes thee honourable and glorious above those people whose God he is not. <\/P> <\/p>\n He is thy praise<\/strong>,…. The object and matter of it, who deserves the praises of all his creatures, because of his perfections, works, and blessings of goodness; for all mercies temporal and spiritual come from him, and therefore he is greatly to be praised for them: praise is his due, and it is comely in his people to give it to him; see Jer 17:14<\/span><\/p>\n and he is thy God which hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen<\/strong>; which were done upon the Egyptians for their sakes, both in the land of Egypt and at the Red sea; and also what he had done for them in the wilderness, to Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, Ps 106:22<\/span>.<\/p>\n 21. He is thy praise. That he may the more easily persuade his countrymen that nothing is better, or more desirable for them than to devote themselves to God’s service, Moses reminds them that they have nothing to boast of out of Him; as if he had said, that they were happy in this one respect, that God had taken them under His charge; but that if this glory were to be taken away, they would be miserable and ruined. For God is called “the praise” of His people, as being their honor and their ornament. Consequently, if they desire to enjoy true and solid blessedness, they must take care to keep themselves under His guardianship; for, if they should be deprived of this, nothing would remain to them but ignominy and shame. To the same effect, he adds, that He is their God; because nothing can be more perverse and absurd than not to receive the Creator of the world Himself, when He freely offers Himself as our God. In proof of this, he subjoins, that He has exerted His power in many miracles for His people’s safety; and, in order that they might be rendered the more inexcusable, he cites their own eyes as witnesses of so many mighty acts which had been wrought in their favor. Thence he goes a step higher, (reminding them, (252)) that their race had been wondrously increased in a short time; whence it was plain, that they had been thus incredibly multiplied by preternatural and divine influence. For assuredly the signal blessing of God was clearly manifested, in the procreation of seven hundred thousand men in less than two hundred and fifty years. (253) Those who then lived had not seen them with their own eyes; but Moses retraces God’s grace to the fountainhead, that they may more fully acknowledge, that whatever good they had experienced depended on that adoption, which had made them God’s people. <\/p>\n (252) Added from the French. <\/p>\n (253) D’un si petit hombre des gens. — Fr. <\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>21. <\/strong>He is thy praise<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> That is, “It is he whom you ought to praise without ceasing; or rather, it is he whose protection makes your glory. Nothing in the world can or ought to appear more honourable, than to have him for your God.” See Psa 106:20<\/span>. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>Mercies like those above mentioned, no doubt, deserve the warmest returns of gratitude and duty. We have here, 1. These reasonable demands of God upon them described. To fear him, <\/em>because his majesty is glorious, his wrath dreadful, and his mercy great. To love him, <\/em>with supreme desire after him, with delight in him beyond all things, and with growing conformity of our souls to his image. To serve him <\/em>with that cheerful, universal, happy obedience, which love dictates, making his service perfect freedom. To keep his commandments, <\/em>without reserve, or murmuring. To circumcise the foreskin of their hearts, <\/em>by putting off the old man, which is corrupt, with the affections and lusts, and neither sparing, nor desiring to spare, the least filthiness or superfluity of naughtiness in the heart. Not<\/em> stiff-necked, <\/em>but humble, and cheerfully submissive to the rod of correction, as to the yoke of obedience. Swearing by his name, <\/em>as the only omniscient God, to whom such appeal should be made; and cleaving <\/em>to him with unshaken fidelity, and persevering steadfastness; withal extending their regard to their neighbours, and loving even the stranger, <\/em>who is the object of God’s regard, and should be of their’s; especially when they considered their own desolate estate in Egypt, where God so graciously, as a father, relieved them of their distresses. Fellowship in suffering should be an argument to pity and relieve the afflicted. Note; <\/em>Israel’s duty is our own, and all this does the Lord our God require of every one of his spiritual Israel. 2. There is the greater justice and suitableness in this conduct towards God; because God <\/em>is glorious above all gods, mighty <\/em>to protect and bless, and terrible <\/em>to punish; above all partiality to persons, and possessing all power in heaven and earth, whether to reward the fidelity of his people, or to execute vengeance on his enemies: full of grace towards the poor and destitute; tender of his own Israel, and the object of their just praises. Note; <\/em>Every view of God in his glorious perfections, is an argument to love and serve him. <\/p>\n Deu 10:21 He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.<\/p>\n Ver. 21. He is thy praise.<\/strong> ] Thy praised One, Psa 18:3 or, Thy praiseworthy One. He is also thy chief glory and praise amongst all nations, who shall admire thy happiness in such a God.<\/p>\n praise = song of praise. <\/p>\n great. Compare 2Sa 7:23. <\/p>\n thy praise: Exo 15:2, Psa 22:3, Isa 12:2-6, Isa 60:19, Jer 17:14, Luk 2:32, Rev 21:23 <\/p>\n that hath: Deu 4:32-35, 1Sa 12:24, 2Sa 7:23, Psa 106:21, Psa 106:22, Isa 64:3, Jer 32:20, Jer 32:21 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 34:10 – a terrible Psa 65:5 – terrible Psa 109:1 – O God Jer 12:16 – my name Luk 8:38 – besought Luk 8:39 – and published<\/p>\n He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. 21. He ] in an emphatic position. thy praise ] Either the object of thy praise (cp. Psa 109:1, God of my praise), or cause of thy fame, thy renown, viz. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 10:21”<\/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-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","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=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>In what the great deeds of God consist.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>By what the great deeds of God are prompted.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>To what the great deeds of God should lead those who profit by them.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/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: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/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: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"