18<\/strong>. Rock<\/em> ] See on Deu 32:4<\/em><\/span>; God, Heb. ’El<\/em>. The predicates used of Him are generally interpreted as if attributing to Him the functions both of father and mother. But the first vb. is more usually in the O.T. of the mother, and is rightly rendered here by R.V. marg. bare<\/em>; the second, gave thee birth<\/em>, is rather was in travail with thee<\/strong>; cp. Num 11:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n Deu 32:18<\/span><\/p>\n Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Forgetful of the Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n How is it that men soon forget the solid, the real, the substantial? What is it that delights men in spluttering rockets, in coloured fountains, in lamps swinging upon trees that are offended by their presence? See the great seething crowd waiting for the coloured fountains to spring up, and for all the little electric lamps confined in tinted globes to shine among swaying branches! What exclamations of idiotic delight! How stunned is modern intelligence at the marvellous display of colour! Who heeds the quiet moon that looks on with unutterable amazement, and that in her motherly heart is saying, Oh, that they were wise, that they were less given to toy worship and playfulness of that kind! Here I have been shining ages upon ages–who heeds me? Which of all the sweltering, overfed throng turns a bleared eye to my course to watch me in my gentle sovereignty? And the stars, too, look down upon the coloured fountains without being moved to envy by their momentary blush and by their unheard splash! We forget the Rock so soon; we prefer the toy; we want something light, something that can be spoken trippingly on the tongue–an easy fluent nothing. We do not care to bow down the head to study, to criticism, to the examination and estimation of evidence, and commit ourselves to the acceptance of sound conclusions. Can we go anywhere to see a coloured fountain? Men who do not travel half a mile to the greatest pulpit in the world, or the greatest altar ever built to the God of heaven, would put themselves and their families to any amount of inconvenience and expense to gaze with the admiration of idiocy upon a coloured fountain! Blessed are they who love the permanent stars, the lamps of heaven, and who set their feet broadly and squarely on Gods everlasting Rock. Let us turn to the real, to the substantial, to the very revelation of Gods truth, and abide there; Ore coloured fountain can only come now and again, but the eternal heavens are always full of light or rich with beauty. (J. Parker, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 18<\/span>. Of the Rock<\/B><\/I> that <\/B>begat thee<\/B><\/I>] tsur<\/I>, the first cause<\/I>, the fountain<\/I> of thy being. See Clarke on De 32:4<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Of the Rock, <\/B>i.e. of God, one of whose titles this is, above, Deu 32:4<\/span>; Isa 44:8<\/span>; or of Christ, who is called the Rock<\/I>, 1Co 10:4<\/span>, whom the Israelites are said to have tempted, there, Deu 32:9<\/span>. <\/P> That begat thee, <\/B>i.e. who hath adopted you to be his people, and hath showed as much care and kindness to you as if he had begotten you. <\/P> <\/p>\n Of the rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful<\/strong>,…. The same with the rock of salvation, De 32:15<\/span>; repeated and expressed in different words, that their wretched ingratitude might be taken notice of and observed: begetting is ascribed to this rock, as regeneration is to Christ, 1Jo 2:29<\/span>; and was true of some among the Jews: some choose to render the words, “the rock of thy kindred” k; being a near kinsman, a brother through his incarnation, which aggravated their unmindfulness of him:<\/p>\n and hast forgotten God that formed thee<\/strong>: for the rock they were unmindful of and forgot is the true God and eternal life, the essential Word of God, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem interpret it; him the Jewish nation forgot; they forgot the characters given of him in the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament; and therefore they knew him not when he came and fulfilled the voices of the prophets they were ignorant of in condemning him: hence they were unmindful of his person, his offices, his works, his benefits, and the great salvation by him; as indeed too many are that call themselves Christians: some observe that the word here used signifies bringing forth children with pain, and so way respect the bitter sorrows and sufferings of Christ, sometimes expressed by a word l which signifies the pains of women in childbirth, Ac 2:24<\/span>; and called the travail of his soul, Isa 53:11<\/span>; and so a further aggravation of their ingratitude, that they should forget him that suffered so much, at least on account of some of them; for, those he endured to bring forth children unto God, or to gather together the children of God, scattered abroad both in Judea and in the whole world, Joh 11:51<\/span>.<\/p>\n k “rupem cognationis tuae”, i.e. “fratrum tuorum”, Van Till; see Rom. ix. 4, 5. l “parturientis te”, Montanus; “parturitorem tuum”, Van Till.<\/p>\n 18. Of the Rock (268) that begat thee. He again aggravates the criminality of the people by referring to their ingratitude, inasmuch as they did not fall through ignorance, but willfully stifled that knowledge of God, which ought to have shone brightly in all their hearts: for this is the effect of the reproach, that they were unmindful of their Rock: as much as to say, that they would never have given themselves up to their impious superstitions, unless they had cast into voluntary oblivion that God whom, by the most conspicuous proofs, they had experimentally found to be the foundation and support of their salvation. <\/p>\n (268) Lat., “of the God,” etc. <\/p>\n (18) Of the Rock that begat thee.<\/strong>The Rock hath begotten thee forgetful, and thou hast forgotten God that travailed with thee <\/em>is another possible translation of this verse. The expression in the second clause is found also in Psa. 90:2<\/span> (a prayer of Moses), Before the mountains were brought forth, while Thou wast yet in travail with <\/em>earth and world, and from eternity unto eternity Thou art God! The word which I have rendered forgetful is usually taken as a verb. But the verb <\/em>is not found elsewhere (i.e., it is invented for the sake of this passage), and the word may not impossibly be an adjective.<\/p>\n 18<\/strong>. <\/strong> Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee <\/strong> Moses emphasizes the ingratitude of the nation in that they forsake Him who has shown paternal and maternal love to them. Rock <\/strong> is put for the founder of the nation. Jehovah is Israel’s founder. “Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.” Isa 51:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>18. <\/strong>Of the Rock that begat thee<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Who is not immediately sensible of the impropriety of this allusion? All the other versions agree with Houbigant in reading, Of the <\/em>God, or Creator, who begat thee.<\/em> <\/p>\n Deu 32:18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.<\/p>\n Ver. 18. And hast forgotten God that formed thee.<\/strong> ] Or, That brought thee forth. Here God is compared to a mother, as in the former clause to a father. So Jas 1:18<\/span> , “Of his own will begat he us,” – , He brought us forth, and did the office of a mother to us; which doth notably set forth his love and the work of his grace.<\/p>\n the Rock: Deu 32:4, Deu 32:15, Isa 17:10 <\/p>\n forgotten: Deu 6:12, Deu 8:11, Deu 8:14, Deu 8:19, Psa 9:17, Psa 44:20-22, Psa 106:21, Isa 17:10, Isa 22:10, Isa 22:11, Jer 2:32, Jer 3:21, Hos 8:14 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 32:6 – requite 1Sa 12:9 – forgat 2Ch 12:1 – he forsook Psa 50:22 – consider Psa 78:11 – General Psa 81:11 – would none Psa 103:2 – forget not Isa 27:11 – therefore Isa 44:21 – Remember Isa 51:13 – forgettest Eze 22:12 – and hast Hos 2:13 – forgat Hos 13:6 – therefore Luk 6:48 – rock<\/p>\n Deu 32:18-19. Of the Rock that begat thee Of God, one of whose titles this is; or of Christ, the rock that is said to have followed the Israelites in the wilderness, (1Co 10:4,) of which they drank, and whom they tempted. Moses still speaks in the prophetic style, representing what appeared present to his prophetic view as if it had already happened. The provoking of his sons and daughters Such they were by calling and profession. Daughters are here expressly named, because the women were notoriously guilty of provoking God by idolatry. Thus we read, (Jer 7:18,) The women knead dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. And again, (Jer 44:15,) The women burned incense to other gods. And in Eze 8:14, The women sat weeping for Tammuz.<\/p>\n Of the Rock [that] begot thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. 18. Rock ] See on Deu 32:4; God, Heb. ’El. The predicates used of Him are generally interpreted as if attributing to Him the functions both of father and mother. 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