Deuteronomy 5

Deuteronomy 5:1

ALL Israel] As Chap. 29. vers. 10, 11. To speake to so many at once that all might heare, required a very loud and shrill voyce.

doe them] Chap. 4. 1.

Deuteronomy 5:3

made not this Covenant] The word [not] is not alwayes purely negative: Sometimes it is to be taken for not onely, or, not principally, Genesis 32:28. Matthew 9:13. So it may be here expounded, the Lord made not the Covenant at Horeb onely with those who are now dead, (at least the most of them) but with them and their posteritie after them, as the Promise, Acts 2:39. Or, by Fathers may be understood the Patriarches who were before the giving of the Law at Horeb, upward unto Adam, with whom there was not such a formall, legall and particular Covenant made as with them at Horeb, though in substance it were the same; for they were obliged to beleeve in Christ, and to keepe the Law to the utmost of their abilitie, so farre as it was revealed unto them; and in many particulars both of the ten Commandments, (as against idolatry & for keeping of the Sabbath,) and of the ceremoniall ordinances, as sacrifices, the distinction of clean and unclean beasts, with others: they practised that which afterward came under legall Precepts, Chap. 29. 15. Rom. 4. 23, 24.

Deuteronomy 5:4

• face to face] Not in a visible or sensible forme or figure, Chap. 4. 12. but so plainly that you need no more to doubt who it was that spake to you, then of him that talketh with you face face. Exodus 33:11.

Deuteronomy 5:5

I stood betweene] Galatians 3:19. Exod. 19. 16, &c. & 20. 18.

Deuteronomy 5:8

graven image] See Annot. on Exod. 20. where the Ten Commandements here repeated, are explained.

Deuteronomy 5:9

jealous God] That is, of his honour not permitting it to any others no more then a generous husband w〈…〉d permit the prostitution of his wife to another man. See H. 2. verse 19, 20.

iniquitie] In the children eternally, if they live and die in the sinnes of their fathers; and temporally (if they doe no) or their fathers sakes; who, as they might in their posteritie have prished, so are they in them punished.

Deuteronomy 5:10

love me] Love of God and obedience to God are linked together, so that the argument is good from the one to the other: as oh. 14. 15.

Deuteronomy 5:11

nor hold him guiltlesse] But so guilty as that he will punish him: for the words are a figurative Liptote, or Litotes, whereby more is meant then is expressed, 1 Samuel 12:21.

Deuteronomy 5:13

sixe dayes] Meaning since God permitteth six dayes to our labouring, we ought willingly to dedicate the seventh wholly to serve him.

Deuteronomy 5:14

stranger] An uncircumcised person shall not be suffered to violate the rest of the Sabbath by any publique profanation. See Neh. 13.

Deuteronomy 5:15

therefore the Lord] This reason is peculiar to the Jewes; the rest, Exod. 20. are generall, obliging universally all persons in all ages.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honour] With love, reverence, obedience, assistance and succour, if they shall have need.

Deuteronomy 5:17

not kill] All manner of killing is not here forbidden, but that which is done without warrantable cause and lawfull authoritie.

Deuteronomy 5:18

not commit adultery] See Annot. on Exodus 20:13.

Deuteronomy 5:19

not steale] See Exod. 20. vers 15.

Deuteronomy 5:20

false witnesse] See Exod. 20. vers. 16.

Deuteronomy 5:21

neither shalt thou desire] See Annot. on Exod. 20. vers. 17.

Deuteronomy 5:22

added no more] That is, no more precepts of the Decalogue, or Morall Law, nor any more lawes to the people immediately; for the other ordinances were delivered to them by the mediation of Moses. See vers. 30. 31.

Deuteronomy 5:23

for the mountaine did burne with fire] This is not rendred as a reason of the darknesse, but as a reason of the peopls feare; which was the more, because exceeding thick darknesse, vers. 22. and bright flaming fire appeared on the mount at the same time; which, as it was more strange, so was it more terrible, as the fire and haile coming together, Exodus 9:24. Psalms 18:12. Deut. Chap. 4. 11.

Deuteronomy 5:25

if we heare] See Annot. on Exodus 20:19.

Deuteronomy 5:26

and lived] See Annot. on Exodus 33:20. & Deuteronomy 4:33.

Deuteronomy 5:28

• well said] * Chap. 18. 17.

Deuteronomy 5:29

• O that, &c.] * Chap. 32. 29. Psalms 81:13. Isaiah 48:18. Jeremiah 44:4.

alwaies] * Chap. 11. 1.

Deuteronomy 5:31

by me] In the mountaine.

Deuteronomy 5:32

• to the right] * Chap. 2. 27. & 17. 20. & 28. 14. Joshua 1:7. Proverbs 4:27.