And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
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Gill's Exposition
And because he loved thy fathers,.... Not their immediate fathers, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and entered not into the good land because of their unbelief, but their more remote fathers…
Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain. Deu 4:34 Temptations - Compare Deu 7:18-19; Deu…
This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper…
Cambridge Bible
And because he loved thy fathers So Hos 11:1 f. In Pent. only here and Deu 10:15; but cp. Deu 7:8; Deu 7:13; Deu 23:5. The free grace and election of God is to the prophets and D the original motive…
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