All the words of this law – <\/B>i. e. all the laws revealed from God to the people by Moses, regarded by the Jews as 613 (compare Num 15:38<\/span> note). The exhibition of laws in this manner on stones, pillars, or tables, was familiar to the ancients. The laws were probably graven in the stone (very plainly, Deu 27:8<\/span> is by some rendered scoop it out well), as are for the most part the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the plaister being afterward added to protect the inscription from the weather.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 3<\/span>. All the words of this law<\/B><\/I>] After all that has been said by ingenious critics concerning the law<\/I> ordered to be written on these stones, some supposing the whole Mosaic law to be intended, others, only the decalogue<\/I>, I am fully of opinion that the ( torah<\/I>) law or ordinance in question simply means the blessings<\/I> and curses<\/I> mentioned in this and in the following chapter; and indeed these contained a very good epitome of the whole law in all its promises and threatenings, in reference to the whole of its grand moral design. See at the end of this chapter. See Clarke on De 27:26<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n All the words of this law; <\/B>either, <\/P> 1. All the words of this Book of Deuteronomy. But that seems too large for this place. Or, <\/P> 2. The blessings and curses here following. But they are mentioned as a different thing. Or, <\/P> 3. The law<\/B> properly so called, i.e. the sum and substance of the precepts or laws of Moses, especially such as were moral and general, as may be guessed from the following part of the chapter, where the curses pronounced against all that confirm not all the words of this law to do them are particularly applied unto the transgressors of moral laws only, Deu 27:15<\/span>,16<\/span>, &c. And especially the decalogue, which oft goes under that name. Compare Jos 8:32<\/span>, &c. <\/P> <\/p>\n 3. thou shalt write upon them allthe words of this law<\/B>It might be, as some think, theDecalogue; but a greater probability is that it was “theblessings and curses,” which comprised in fact an epitome of thelaw (Jos 8:34<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n And thou shall write upon them all the words of this law<\/strong>,…. Not the whole book of Deuteronomy, as some think, at least not the historical part of it, only what concerns the laws of God; and it may be only a summary or abstract of them, and perhaps only the ten commandments. Josephus q is of opinion that the blessings and the curses after recited were what were written on them:<\/p>\n when thou art passed over<\/strong>; that is, the river Jordan:<\/p>\n that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey<\/strong>; this account of the land of Canaan is so frequently observed, to imprint upon their minds a sense of the great goodness of God in giving them such a fruitful country, and to point out to them the obligation they lay under to observe the laws of God ordered to be written on plastered stones, as soon as they came into it:<\/p>\n as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee<\/strong>; Ex 3:8<\/span>.<\/p>\n q Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 44.<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. <\/strong> Thou shalt write upon them <\/strong> Before the cement put upon the stones became dry the words could be inscribed; or, on the smooth surface after it had become hard they could be traced, as we find in some ancient tombs. <\/p>\n All the words of this law <\/strong> How large a portion of the requirements was to be written is uncertain. Some think only the Decalogue; others, that the blessings and the cursings were to be inscribed. Some of the rabbins held that the substance of the entire law, including its six hundred and thirteen enactments, was to be written on the stones. The object of setting up this stone was probably not so much for the purpose of handing down the law to the coming generations as it was to have a monument in the centre of the land which would be a public acknowledgment of the law of Jehovah on the part of the nation. It is useless to speculate as to the special words of the law that were to be written on this monument. It may have been the entire code. “The Behistun inscription in its triple form is twice as long as this entire code carved in bold characters in the solid rock.” Presbyterian Review, <\/em> January, 1882, p. 113. For a description of this celebrated inscription see Encyclopaedia Britannica, <\/em> ninth edition, under “Behistun.” Compare GREEN’S Moses and the Prophets.<\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>3. <\/strong>All the words of this law<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> But what law? it may be asked. They must have been immense stones to have contained the whole book of Deuteronomy, much more the whole Pentateuch: either therefore the ten commandments, <\/em>or the blessings <\/em>and curses, <\/em>must be meant. <\/p>\n 1. Mr. Locke says, all the words, <\/em>&c. means the decalogue; <\/em>and Dr. Kennicott also is for the ten commandments, <\/em>that divine system of the moral law, <\/em>which, he says, may be well called the law, <\/em>by way of eminence. In this sense the word is used Act 7:53<\/span>. At our entrance upon this consideration, the propriety of engraving the ten commandments <\/em>on this occasion strikes us at once; for, Had not the Israelites been brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand, to possess the land of Canaan, there to live as the servants <\/em>and subjects of the one true God? Was there not a covenant <\/em>expressly made with them for this purpose on their entering into the wilderness? Did not the ten commandments, <\/em>delivered by God, and the promise of obedience made by the people, constitute the principal part of that solemn covenant? And therefore, upon their taking possession of the land thus promised, what so proper to engrave on stones, and fix up near the centre of that country for public inspection, as those ten commandments, <\/em>which make the principal part of that law, <\/em>of that divine charter, which was to secure that country to them, and to their posterity? See the note on ver. 26. The two tables, containing these commandments, were then in the ark; and as the ark was, doubtless, near Moses, while he was thus solemnly addressing his brethren, we may consider him as pointing to that very law, when he said all the words of this law. <\/em>But further, the covenant <\/em>is expressly asserted to be the ten commandments, <\/em>chap. Deu 4:13<\/span> and Exo 34:28<\/span> and if we allow the authority of the Samaritan text and version, we shall find in the addition of four verses between verses 10 and 11 of Exodus 20<\/span> that it expressly asserts, that the ten commandments <\/em>were the law <\/em>which was to be written upon the stones on this occasion. See Kennicott’s 2nd Dissertation. <\/p>\n 2. Josephus, however, understands the curses <\/em>only at the end of this chapter to be meant, which curses, as will appear from the note on ver. 15 have a manifest reference to the ten commandments. Jos 8:34<\/span> appears, I think, decisive for the blessings <\/em>and curses: <\/em>for it is there said, speaking of Joshua’s completing this injunction, that he read all the words of the law, the blessings and curses; <\/em>where blessings <\/em>and curses <\/em>seem evidently in apposition with the words of the law. Be this as it may, it is certain, that before the invention of paper, the ancients, especially the Phoenicians and Egyptians, were accustomed to write upon stones those things whereof they were desirous to preserve the memory; various proofs of which may be found in Bishop Huet’s Demonstr. Evang. prop. iv. c. 2. <\/p>\n write. See note on Exo 17:14. Compare Jos 8:30-32. <\/p>\n this law: i.e. which follows, viz. the blessings and curses. <\/p>\n as = according as. <\/p>\n thou shalt: Jos 8:32, Jer 31:31-33, 2Co 3:2, 2Co 3:3, Heb 8:6-10, Heb 10:16 <\/p>\n this law: This law probably means only the blessings and curses mentioned in this and the following chapter; which indeed contain an epitome of the whole law. <\/p>\n a land: Deu 6:8, Deu 26:9, Lev 20:24, Num 13:27, Num 14:8, Jos 5:6, Jer 11:5, Jer 32:22 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 3:8 – unto a good Lev 14:34 – When Deu 4:44 – General Deu 27:2 – unto the Deu 27:8 – thou shalt Job 19:24 – graven Eze 20:6 – flowing<\/p>\n 27:3 {b} And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.<\/p>\n (b) God would have his law set up in the borders of the land of Canaan, that all that looked on it might know that the land was dedicated to his service.<\/p>\n And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 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