18<\/strong>. lest there should be<\/em> ] Perhaps better, may there not be!<\/p>\n this day<\/em> ] Not in LXX and here out of place.<\/p>\n to go to serve<\/em> ] Deu 13:6<\/span>; Deu 13:13<\/span> (7, 14), Deu 17:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n a root that beareth<\/em> ] Only here.<\/p>\n gall<\/em> ] Heb. rsh<\/em>, lit. head<\/em>, sometimes interpreted of the poppy; either that or some poison: Deu 32:32<\/span>, Amo 6:12<\/span>, Hos 10:4<\/span>; with wormwood<\/em>, Amo 5:7<\/span>; Amo 6:12<\/span>, Jer 9:15<\/span> (14), Deu 23:15<\/span>, Lam 3:15<\/span>; Lam 3:19<\/span>, Pro 5:4<\/span>. Such are the fruits of idolatry!<\/p>\n The word here and in Deu 32:32<\/span> rendered gall, is in Hos 10:4<\/span> translated hemlock. It is the name of a plant of intense bitterness, and of quick growth; and is therefore repeatedly used in conjunction with wormwood (compare Jer 9:15<\/span>; Lam 3:19<\/span>; Amo 6:12<\/span>), to express figuratively the nature and effects of sin (compare the marginal references.). The herb is probably the poppy. Hence, the water (i. e. juice) of gall Jer 8:14<\/span>; Jer 23:15<\/span> would be opium. This would explain its employment in the stupefying drink given to criminals at the time of execution (compare Psa 69:21<\/span>; Mat 27:34<\/span>), and the use of the word as synonymous with poison (compare Deu 32:33<\/span>; Job 20:16<\/span>).<\/P> Wormwood – <\/B>is the plant absinthium. It is used to denote metaphorically the distress and trouble which result from sin.<\/P> The root that beareth gall and wormwood, means in this place any person lurking among them who is tainted with apostasy.<\/P> <\/p>\n Deu 29:18<\/span><\/p>\n A root that beareth gall and wormwood.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The root that beareth wormwood<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>That this was true in the case of the Israelites is very manifest. Their history tells us the whole generation which came up out of Egypt died in the wilderness because of their sins. Their sin then was a root which bore to them the poisonous hemlock, for they left a line of graves along their line of march as a sad memorial to their iniquities, and only Joshua and Caleb ever entered into the promised land.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Again, not only does the history of the Jews prove that sin is a root of bitterness, but our judgment tells us that it is most fitting it should be so. If sin were in the long run pleasurable, and really produced advantage to man, it would be a very strange arrangement in the Divine economy. Sin is a root which has not always budded and blossomed in this life, but which will bud and blossom and bring forth its fruit in the life to come, and the fruit of sin will be more bitter than hemlock and wormwood. I gather this from my reason. Let an intelligent person only think a minute, and I am sure he will be convinced that there must be a terrible punishment for sin. Reflect, there are other laws in the world besides moral laws: there are what is called by the philosopher physical laws, that is to say, laws which concern matter rather than mind. Now, if men break these laws, does any ill result follow from the violation? For instance, the law of attraction, or gravitation, that certain bodies shall attract other bodies, can that be infringed without risk? If you rebel against gravitation, it will just crush you up as a man would a beetle, or a fly, and without a particle of pity will avenge its insulted authority. Again, we are not left to this argument alone, for there is one out of the Ten Commandments, to which I can only allude, which involves more especially the bodies of men. Now, when a man offends against the one command, we shall see if God does really punish sin; we shall see in the mans body whether or not sin does produce gall and wormwood. I allude, of course, to the command, Thou shalt not commit adultery, which forbids all classes of lasciviousness and uncleanness. The men or women who violate this precept soon find that they have not only done wrong to God, but wrong to themselves. Our hospitals and asylums could tell you into what a fearful state men have brought themselves by sins of the flesh. Now, if the violation of this one command, which happens to touch the body, does beyond all doubt make men smart for it, why not with the rest?<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>But we are not, happily, left to our reason about it; we can turn to the Book of God, and call up the witnesses. Ask Noah, as he looks out of his ark, Does sin bring bitterness? and he points to the floating carcasses of innumerable thousands that died because of sin. Turn to Abraham: does sin bear bitterness? he points to the smoke of Sodom and Gomorrah that God destroyed because of their wickedness. Listen to James, or Jude, or Peter, and you hear them speak of chains of darkness and flaming fire. Let the Saviour Himself speak to you. He cries, These shall go away into everlasting punishment.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>The non-loving of the Most High, even though you never curse or swear, even though you do not break the Sabbath, is that root that will hear gall and wormwood.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Next we read of men seeking after another God. Are you loving someone better than God? Are you living for money–is that your great object? Is there no one here who is living for self? If so, though you may be outwardly most respectable people, if you are living for anything but God, that root will bring forth gall and wormwood.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Again, this root is in every man who disbelieves the penalty. The verse following the text speaks of one who said, I shall have peace though I walk after my own heart. Are you saying that? If so, you have the evil root in your heart. There is no more sure sign of reprobation than callousness and carelessness.<\/p>\n Verse 18<\/span>. A root that beareth gall and wormwood<\/B><\/I>] That is, as the apostle expresses it, Heb 3:12<\/span>, An evil heart of unbelief departing from the living God<\/I>; for to this place he evidently refers. It may also signify false<\/I> doctrines<\/I>, or idolatrous persons<\/I> among themselves.<\/P><\/p>\n Lest there should be; <\/B>or take heed or beware lest there be<\/I>; for it seems to be an ellipsis, or defect of a verb, which is usual in Scripture, and which we have in a case parallel to this. Gen 3:22<\/span>. And now<\/I> we must take care lest he put forth<\/I>, &c. Or this particle lest<\/I> may be joined with Deu 29:14<\/span>,15<\/span>, to this purpose, I now renew the covenant with you, and with your posterity, lest any of you or yours should be tempted to depart from God, &c. Whose heart turneth away<\/I>, i.e. who turneth away from God to idols, not by constraint, but by choice, and the inclination of his own heart. By this phrase he leads them to the spring of their sin and ruin, even their own hearts, which he admonisheth them hereby to look to above all things. <\/P> A root; <\/B>either, <\/P> 1. An evil heart inclining you to such cursed idolatry, and bringing forth bitter fruits. Or rather, <\/P> 2. Some secret and subtle apostate, who lurks and works like a root under ground, and slyly conveys his poison to the infection of others; for both the foregoing and following words speak of some particular person. <\/P> Gall and wormwood, <\/B>i.e. which though for the present it may please your fancy, yet in the end, assure yourselves, will produce bitter fruits, not only distasteful to God, but also poisonful and destructive to yourselves. <\/P> <\/p>\n Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe<\/strong>,…. These words stand in connection with De 29:15<\/span>, with<\/p>\n De 29:16<\/span> being in a parenthesis, as may be observed, and show the design of this solemn appearance of the people, and their entering afresh into covenant; which was to prevent their falling into idolatry, and preserve them from it, whether a single person of either sex, or a whole family, or even a tribe, which might be in danger of being infected with it, and so all the people:<\/p>\n whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go [and] serve the gods of those nations<\/strong>; whose heart is enticed and drawn aside at the remembrance of the idols he has seen worshipped by others; and is looking off from the Lord God, his faith in him being weakened, his fear of him removed, and his affections for him lessened; and is looking towards the idols of the nations, with a hankering mind to serve and worship them:<\/p>\n lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood<\/strong>: the word “rosh”, which we render “gall”, signifies, according to Jarchi, a bitter herb, which better suits with a root than gall, and is elsewhere by us rendered “hemlock”, Ho 10:4<\/span>; and is by him very rightly interpreted of a wicked man among them; for not a principle of immorality, or heresy, rooted in the mind, productive of bitter fruits, or evil actions, is meant; but a bad man, particularly an idolater, who is rooted in idolatry, and is guilty of and commits abominable actions; the issue of which will be bitterness and death, if not recovered; which agrees with what the apostle says, Heb 12:15<\/span>; who manifestly alludes to this passage; see the Apocrypha:<\/p>\n “In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.” (1 Maccabees 1:11)<\/p>\n and is confirmed by what follows.<\/p>\n “ That there may not be among you<\/em>,” etc.: this sentence may be easily explained by introducing a thought which may be easily supplied, such as “ consider this,” or “do not forget what ye have seen, that no one, either man or woman, family or tribe, may turn away from Jehovah our God.” – “ That there may not be a root among you which bears poison and wormwood as fruit<\/em>.” A striking image of the destructive fruit borne by idolatry (cf. Heb 12:15<\/span>). Rosh stands for a plant of a very bitter taste, as we may see from the frequency with which it is combined with , wormwood: it is not, strictly speaking, a poisonous plant, although the word is used in Job 20:16<\/span> to denote the poison of serpents, because, in the estimation of a Hebrew, bitterness and poison were kindred terms. There is no other passage in which it can be shown to have the meaning “ poison.” The sense of the figure is given in plain terms in Deu 29:19<\/span>, “ that no one when he hears the words of this oath may bless himself in his heart, saying, I will prosper with me, for I walk in the firmness of my heart<\/em>.” To bless himself in his heart is to congratulate himself. , firmness, a vox media <\/em>; in Syriac, firmness, in a good sense, equivalent to truth; in Hebrew, generally in a bad sense, denoting hardness of heart; and this is the sense in which Moses uses it here. – “ To sweep away that which is saturated with the thirsty:<\/em> ” a proverbial expression, of which very different interpretations have been given (see Rosenmller ad h.<\/em> l.<\/em>), taken no doubt from the land and transferred to persons or souls; so that we might supply Nephesh <\/em> in this sense, “to destroy all, both those who have drunk its poison, and those also who are still thirsting for it” ( Knobel<\/em>). But even if we were to supply (the land), we should not have to think of the land itself, but simply of its inhabitants, so that the thought would still remain the same.<\/p>\n (18) Lest there should be.<\/strong>The connection with Deu. 29:15<\/span> seems to be this. I make this covenant binding with all your generations, in case there should even now be any root of idolatry among you which may grow up and bring forth fruit in later times, and bring a curse upon your whole country. That there were such roots of idolatry is only too plain from Deu. 31:16<\/span>, and from what followed after the death of the elders of this generation. (Comp. Jdg. 2:10-12<\/span>.)<\/p>\n A root that beareth gall and wormwood.<\/strong>The same two words occur in Lam. 3:19<\/span>, and one of them (gall) in Psa. 69:21<\/span>. From whatever root it came, there was One to whom it was given to drink. The LXX. form of this expression, lest there is among you any root <\/em>that springeth up <\/em>in gall and bitterness, <\/em>is incorporated into the warning in Heb. 12:15<\/span> : Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up <\/em>trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.<\/p>\n 18<\/strong>. <\/strong> Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood <\/strong> This figurative expression may be compared with the passage in Heb 12:15<\/span>, “Lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” The word translated gall probably does not denote a poisonous plant.<\/p>\n tribe. Dan and Ephraim not named in Rev 7. Compare Jdg 17, Ephraim; and Jdg 18, Dan. See App-45. <\/p>\n among you man: Deu 11:16, Deu 11:17, Deu 13:1-15, Deu 17:2-7, Heb 3:12 <\/p>\n among you a root: Jer 9:15, Hos 10:4, Amo 6:12, Act 8:23, Heb 12:15 <\/p>\n gall and wormwood: or, a poisonful herb, Heb. rosh <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 5:18 – the bitter water Deu 30:1 – the blessing Deu 30:17 – if thine Deu 31:29 – and evil Deu 32:32 – their grapes Jos 24:15 – or the gods Jdg 2:12 – forsook 2Ki 22:16 – all the words 2Ch 15:13 – whether small 2Ch 34:21 – great 2Ch 36:17 – who slew Psa 69:24 – Pour Pro 14:34 – but Isa 34:5 – the people Jer 26:4 – If Jer 28:8 – prophesied Jer 36:7 – for Lam 1:5 – for Lam 2:17 – done Eze 33:26 – and shall Dan 9:27 – that determined Amo 5:7 – turn Rev 8:11 – Wormwood<\/p>\n Deu 29:18. Lest there be among you man or woman These words are to be considered as connected with Deu 29:14-15, and as signifying the end for which he engaged them to renew their covenant with God, that none of them might revolt from him to serve other gods. Lest there should be a root An evil heart inclining you to such cursed idolatry, and bringing forth bitter fruits: or rather, some secret or subtle apostate from the true God and his religion, secretly lurking and working as a root under ground, and spreading his poison to the infection of others; for both the foregoing and following words speak of some particular person. Gall and wormwood Which though for the present it may please his fancy, yet in the end will produce bitter fruits; not only distasteful to God, but also destructive to yourselves. The word which we translate gall, is thought to signify some noxious and poisonous herb, but what herb, is difficult to say. It is rendered hemlock, (Hos 10:4,) and is commonly joined with wormwood, as here, Jer 9:15; Lam 3:19; Amo 6:12. To this passage the apostle alludes Heb 12:15, Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you.<\/p>\n 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you {i} a root that beareth gall and wormwood;<\/p>\n (i) Such sin, as the bitter fruit of it might choke and destroy you.<\/p>\n Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 18. lest there should be ] Perhaps better, may … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:18”<\/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-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","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=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"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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I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>Sin is the root which beareth gall and wormwood.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Is there such a root as this growing in the heart of any one of us here? Some have this root that will bear gall and wormwood in them who are not actually gross outward sinners: they are described as those who forget God.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The last point was to be, how are we to get rid of it? Is there a possibility of being delivered from the gall and wormwood? There is. As many as trust in Christ shall be rid of the gall and wormwood. (C. H. Spurgeon.<\/em>)<\/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: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the 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
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