With this chapter Moses concludes his preface to the repetition of the statutes and judgments which they must observe to do. He repeats the general charge , and, having in the close of the foregoing chapter begun to mention the great things God had done among them, in this, I.

Because God has made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude (so the preceding chapter concludes), therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (so this begins).

Still Moses urges the same subject, as loth to conclude till he had gained his point. ” If thou wilt enter into life, if thou wilt enter into Canaan, a type of that life, and find it a good land indeed to thee, keep the commandments: Keep all the commandments which I command you this day; love God,…

Here, I. Moses repeats the directions he had given for the guidance and assistance of the people in their obedience, and for the keeping up of religion among them , which is much to the same purport with what we had before, Deut. 6:6, &c. Let us all be directed by the three rules here given:—1.

Here Moses concludes his general exhortations to obedience; and his management is very affecting, and such as, one would think, should have engaged them for ever to God, and should have left impressions upon them never to be worn out. I.