Deu 4:5-9 - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Read and comment on the how the following passages might relate to the enlarging of Japheth in regards to the Sh’kinah dwelling in the tents of Shem.

Deu 4:5-9

5-6. This will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear . . . all these decrees—Moses predicted that the faithful observance of the laws given them would raise their national character for intelligence and wisdom. In point of fact it did do so; for although the heathen world generally ridiculed the Hebrews for what they considered a foolish and absurd exclusiveness, some of the most eminent philosophers expressed the highest admiration of the fundamental principle in the Jewish religion—the unity of Elohim; and their legislators borrowed some laws from the constitution of the Hebrews.

6. And say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people"—That had such a body of laws, in which they were instructed, and according to which they were governed, and in which they walked; that were so agreeable to reason, truth, justice, and equity; insomuch that so far as they became known they were admired and copied after, both by Greeks and Romans; and hence it was that the oracle declared, that only the Chaldeans and Hebrews were a wise people; the Hebrews came from Chaldea, as Abraham the father of them.

8. And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws—Founded in justice and equity, and so agreeable to right reason, and so well calculated and adapted to lead persons in the ways of righteousness and truth, and keep them from doing any injury to each other's persons and properties, and to maintain good order, peace, and concord among them:

As this body of laws I am setting before you today?—Which he then repeated, afresh declared, explained and instructed them in; for otherwise it had been delivered to them near forty years ago. Now there was not any nation then in being, nor any since, to be compared with the nation of the Jews, for the wise and wholesome laws given unto them; no, not the more cultivated and civilized nations, as the Grecians and Romans, who had the advantage of such wise lawgivers as they were accounted, as Solon, Lycurgus, Numa, and others; and indeed the best laws that they had seem to be borrowed from the Jews.

Gill, John. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:6." "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible." . 1999.

Gill, John. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:8." "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible." . 1999.

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