Deut. 30 A promise of gracious deliverance to the Jews upon their repentance, in future times, Deut. 30:1–10. The law of God manifest and just, Deut. 30:11–14. Life and death set before them, Deut. 30:15–20.

The blessing when thou art obedient, and the curse when thou becomest rebellious and apostatical. Set before thee, Heb. placed before thy face, i.e. propounded to thy consideration and choice. Call them to mind, or, bring them back to thy heart, i.e.

Turn thy captivity, i.e. bring back thy captives, as captivity is taken, Ps. 14:7, Eph. 4:8. Gather thee, i.e. thy children; either spiritually such, as it is explained John 11:51–52; or literally such, as it is promised Rom. 11:0.

The Lord will circumcise thine heart, or, for the Lord will circumcise thine heart, i.e. will by his word and Spirit change and purge thy heart from all thine idolatry, and superstition, and wickedness, and incline thy heart to love him, as it here follows. See Deut. 10:16.

Whereas thou didst formerly receive and enjoy these mercies for thy hurt, through thy own wicked and foolish heart, when thou wast full and fat, forgetting God, and kicking against him, Deut. 31:20, Deut.

This caution and condition is added to warn them that they should not receive the grace of God in vain, and to teach them that the grace of God doth not discharge man’s obligation to his duty, nor excuse him for the neglect of it, and that conversion and sanctification, though it be God’s work, yet…

He seems to speak of the law, or of that great command of loving and obeying God, mentioned here Deut. 30:2, Deut. 30:6, Deut. 30:10, Deut. 30:16, which is the sum of the law, of which yet he doth not here speak simply, or as it is in itself, but as it is mollified and accompanied with the grace of…

In heaven, i.e. shut up there; but it hath been thence delivered and published in thy hearing.

Neither is it beyond the sea: the knowledge of this commandment is not to be fetched from far distant places, to which divers of the wise heathens travelled for their wisdom, but it was brought to thy very doors and ears, and declared to thee in this wilderness.

In thy mouth; thou knowest it so well, that it is the matter of thy common discourse; thou professest thy knowledge and belief of it: or, in the months of thy priests and Levites, who are daily preaching of it, and instructing thee in it. In thy heart, i.e.

Life and good, i.e. a good or a happy life; a figure called heniaduo: or, life, and all the blessings of life, as good is oft used, as Job 7:7, Ps. 4:6, Ps. 128:5, Eccles. 2:24, Eccles. 4:8, Eccles. 6:3.

Drawn away, either by thy own evil mind, or by the examples or persuasions of others.

Compare Deut. 4:26, Josh. 24:27, Ps. 1:4, Isa. 1:2.

He is thy life, i.e. the cause or author of thy life, as life is used John 14:6, John 17:3.