65<\/strong>. shalt thou find no ease<\/em> ] The vb. is found only in Jer 31:2<\/span>; Jer 47:6<\/span>; Jer 50:34<\/span>, Isa 52:4<\/span>; its substantive in Isa 28:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n no rest<\/em>, etc.] Gen 8:9<\/span>.<\/p>\n a<\/em> quaking<\/strong> heart<\/em> ] The vb. occurs in Deu 2:25<\/span>.<\/p>\n failing of eyes<\/em> ] With disappointment of hope: cp. Deu 28:32<\/em><\/span> and Lam 2:11<\/span>; Lam 4:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n pining of soul<\/em> ] Faintness of longing<\/em> or of life<\/em>; Heb. nephesh<\/em> means either.<\/p>\n Verse 65<\/span>. No ease – a trembling heart, and failing of eyes<\/B><\/I>] The trembling of heart<\/I> may refer to their state of continual insecurity<\/I>, being, under every kind of government, proscribed, and, even under the most mild, uncertain of toleration and protection; and the failing of eyes<\/I>, to their vain and ever-disappointed expectation of the Messiah.<\/P> <\/p>\n Neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; <\/B>ye shall have no settlement in the land whither you are banished, but there you shall be tossed about from place to place, and sold from person to person, or, Cain-like, wander about like a vagabond. <\/P> <\/p>\n And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest<\/strong>,…. No quiet settlement, nor certain dwelling, being obliged to move from place to place through cruel edicts, heavy fines and mulcts, exorbitant taxes and impositions, and diligent search made after them by the courts of the inquisition, especially where any substance was to be gotten. The Jews themselves t own that this passage is now fulfilled in them:<\/p>\n but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart<\/strong>; being always in fear lest their persons should be seized on, their children taken from them, and their goods confiscated; hence the poet u gives them the epithet of “trembling”:<\/p>\n and failing of eyes<\/strong>: in looking for a vainly expected Messiah, to deliver them from all their fears and troubles:<\/p>\n and sorrow of mind<\/strong>; under their present afflictions and calamities.<\/p>\n t Shebet Judah, p. 108, 109. Manasseh Ben Israel de Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 132. u “—-Judea tremens—-“. Juvenal, Satyr 6. v. 543.<\/p>\n (65) And among these nations shalt thou find no ease.<\/strong>The repeated persecutions of the Jews by other nations in the time of their dispersion are among the most fearful and wonderful phenomena of history.<\/p>\n And failing of eyes.<\/strong>Looking for salvation, and it cometh not (Rashi). How many years have they gone on praying that they may keep the feast next year in Jerusalem? and still the hope is deferred.<\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>65. <\/strong>Among these nations shalt thou find no ease<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Shalt thou find no plenty, neither shalt thou have where to rest the sole of thy foot. <\/em>Schult. 306. They have been so far from finding rest, that they have been banished from city to city, from country to country. In many places they have been banished and recalled, and banished again. We will only just mention their great banishments in former times, and from countries well known. In the latter end of the thirteenth century, they were banished from England by Edward I. and not permitted to return and settle again till Cromwell’s time. In the fourteenth century, they were banished France (for the seventh time, <\/em>says Mezeray) by Charles VI. and ever since they have been only tolerated: they have not enjoyed entire liberty, except at Mentz, where they have a synagogue. In the fifteenth century, they were banished from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella; and, according to Mariana, (Hist. Spain, book 26: chap. 1 and 6.) there were 170,000 families, or, as some say, 800,000 persons, who left the kingdom. See Mezeray Abrege Chron. and Basnage, book 7: chap. 18, 19. Most of them paid dearly to John 2<\/span> for a refuge in Portugal; but within a few years they were expelled from that place also by his successor Emanuel; and in our time, within these few years, they were banished from Prague by the queen of Bohemia. Bishop Newton. It is added, that, in this state of banishment, the Lord should give them a<\/em> trembling heart, <\/em>&c. i.e. they should live in perpetual dread of their lives, in continual fears and vexations. Some, by a trembling heart, <\/em>understand the terrors of an evil conscience; and by failing of the eyes, <\/em>the constant disappointment of the hopes wherewith they were fed by false Messiahs. But, failing of the eyes, <\/em>in the most natural acceptation, signifies that wan, livid, and fearful cast of the eyes, which is usually the concomitant of an anxious and dejected mind, and which is very discernible to every attentive observer of the Jews. Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, <\/em>continues Moses; i.e. “it shall be so much at the pleasure of the enemies among whom you are, that it shall hang, as it were, on a slender thread, which is in danger every moment of being broken.” The Latins use the same metaphor, Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo, <\/em>all men hang upon a slender thread; which is meant of human life in general, as frail and uncertain: but the expression before us denotes the perplexity of that mind which is constantly haunted with the fear of death. Districtus ensis cui super impia cervice pendet. <\/em>See Osorius de Rebus Emmanuelis, <\/em>lib. 4: who, speaking of a terrible massacre of the Jews at Lisbon in 1506, says, that “the condition of both parents and children was so deplorable, and such an horrible dread depressed and overwhelmed them, that the living could scarcely be distinguished from the dead.” <\/p>\n Deu 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:<\/p>\n Ver. 65. A trembling heart.<\/strong> ] Juvenal by a jeer calls them Iudaeos trementes,<\/em> trembling Jews (Sat. vi.). It seems they had Cain’s curse upon them.<\/p>\n mind. Hebrew. nephesh, soul. App-13. <\/p>\n among: After the conquest of their country by the Romans, Hadrian, by a public decree, ratified by the senate, forbad any Jew to come even within sight of Judea; and hence they were dispersed over every quarter of the globe, where they found no alleviation or respite from misery. In no country are they treated as denizens; all suspect them as enemies, and behave to them as aliens; if they do not, as had been too frequently the case, harass, oppress, and persecute them, even unto death. <\/p>\n shalt thou: Gen 8:9, Isa 57:21, Eze 5:12-17, Eze 20:32-35, Amo 9:4, Amo 9:9, Amo 9:10 <\/p>\n the Lord: Lev 26:36, Isa 51:17, Eze 12:18, Eze 12:19, Hos 11:10, Hos 11:11, Hab 3:16, Luk 21:26 <\/p>\n failing of eyes: Lev 26:16, Isa 65:14, Lam 3:65, Mat 24:8, Rom 11:10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 4:12 – a fugitive Gen 4:14 – fugitive Gen 42:28 – their heart Lev 26:39 – shall pine Deu 28:32 – fail Deu 30:1 – the blessing Jdg 10:9 – distressed 2Ki 15:29 – carried them Job 11:20 – the eyes Job 17:5 – the eyes Psa 53:5 – There Psa 69:23 – make their Psa 106:27 – to scatter Ecc 7:7 – oppression Isa 7:2 – And his heart Isa 14:3 – General Jer 20:4 – I will make Jer 24:9 – to be removed Lam 1:13 – desolate Lam 4:16 – hath Lam 5:5 – Our necks are under persecution Lam 5:17 – our eyes Hos 9:17 – and Rev 14:11 – no<\/p>\n Deu 28:65. Among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall thy foot have rest They have been so far from finding rest, that they have been banished from city to city, from country to country. In many places they have been banished and recalled, and banished again. Several remarkable instances of this kind are mentioned by Bishop Newton here, to whom the reader is referred. In some of them the Jews must have suffered much, particularly when, in the latter end of the fifteenth century, they were banished from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella. At that time, according to Mariana, there were one hundred and seventy thousand families, or, as some say, eight hundred thousand persons, who left the kingdom. Abarbinel, a Jewish writer, gives the following account of this their last expulsion from Spain. He says, Three hundred thousand of them, old and young, men and women, (among whom he was one,) went away on foot, upon one day, not knowing whither to go. Some went into Portugal, others into Navarre, where they conflicted with many calamities: for some became a prey or perished by famine and pestilence; and therefore others committed themselves to sea, hoping to find a quiet seat in some other countries. But on the sea they met with new disasters; for many were sold for slaves when they came on any coast, many were drowned, many burned in the ships, which were set on fire. In short, all suffered the punishment of God the avenger: for, after all this, a plague came and swept away the rest of the miserable wretches, who were hated by all mankind; so all that vast number perished by some calamity or other, except a very few. Some who sought for rest in the kingdom of Fez, lived there a long time upon grass, and ate its very roots, and then died, and their bodies lay exposed, none being so charitable as to bury them.<\/p>\n The Jewish writer just quoted mentions some taking refuge in Portugal. They paid dearly for this liberty to John II., but within a few years were expelled from thence also by his successor. And in the beginning of the next century a dreadful massacre was made of them at Lisbon, for three days together, where they were not suffered to die of their deadly wounds, but were dragged by their mangled limbs into the market-place, where the bodies of the living and the slain, with others half alive, half dead, were burned together in heaps. Two thousand of them perished in this barbarous manner. Parents durst not mourn for their children, nor children sigh for their parents, when they saw them haled to the place of torment. Fear so dispirited them, as an historian relates, that the living in their aspect did not much differ from the dead, so that they were exactly in the condition Moses here describes, when he says, And the Lord shall give thee a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind.<\/p>\n And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 65. shalt thou find no ease ] The vb. is found only in Jer 31:2; Jer 47:6; Jer 50:34, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:65”<\/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-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","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=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"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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