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Deuteronomy 10:16

Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked .

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,.... Content not yourselves with, nor put your confidence in outward circumcision of the flesh, but be concerned for the circumcision of the heart; for…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

On “circumcision” see Gen 17:10. This verse points to the spiritual import of circumcision. Man is by nature “very far gone from original righteousness,” and in a state of enmity to God; by…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Deuteronomy 10:16-19

The form of address changes to Pl., and a qualification is made of the great statement just given. Though God has elected (for reasons of His own) to love Israel's fathers and to choose their…