A Commentary and Paraphrase, Vol. 6 of 2
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Excerpt from A Commentary and Paraphrase, Vol. 6 of 2: On the Old and New Testament, and the Apocrypha Ver. 1. And it shall come to pass.] In this chapter he repeats, with many enlargements, the reward and penalties which he had promised and threatened in the book of Leviticus, unto the observance or breach of the covenant they had made with God: and here in this verse he promises in general the blessings which are more particularly enumerated in the following verses. If thou wilt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and do all his commandments, &c. See vii. 12. where the same thing is said; only here he adds the word diligently, to make them attend with the greater seriousness to what he delivered. (See chap. xi. 13. 22.) That the Lard thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.] By bestowing on them the following blessings. (See vii. 14.) They were already endued with singular privileges above other nations, (Exod. xix. 5, 6.) which by their obedience would be confirmed, continued, and augmented, in greater plenty of all things. Ver. 2. And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.] Blessings that come unexpectedly, and when we are not in pursuit of them, are most welcome, and highly delight us. And such God here promises to bestow on them by his gracious providence, without their laborious and anxious seeking after them. By which very thing he set them above all nations: for what they followed after eagerly, and many times in vain, he undertakes should come to thorn and prevent their desires. If thou shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.] So as to observe and do all his commandments; as it is explained in the foregoing verse. Ver. 3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field.] That is, in all their affairs, within doors or without. Or whether they lived by employments in the city, or by husbandry in tilling the ground. It is not a natural interpretation of these words, which one of the Hebrew doctors gives of them in Bava Metzia, where he expounds, blessed shall thou be in the city, Thy house shall be so nigh unto the synagogue, that thou needest not be troubled by going a long way to it; and blessed in the field. Thy ground shall lie so near to the city, that thou mayest quickly bring the fruit it produces to be sold in the market. But if he could have gone on in this manner, it had been something tolerable; but he expounds what follows in a most indecent manner. (See Wagenseil upon the Gemara of Sota, cap. 3. sect. 9. annot. 5.) Ver. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body.] This seems to be a promise of preventing miscarriages, when they were with child: for a numerous progeny is promised afterward, (ver. 11.) And the fruit of thy ground.] This signifies they should have seasonable harvest and vintages. For fruit of the ground comprehends not only all sorts of corn, but grapes, figs, pomegranates, and such-like fruits which grow on trees. And the fruit of thy cattle.] By the word behema is sometimes meant all sorts of brute creatures, in opposition to men; sometimes tame creatures, in opposition to wild beasts: but here all sorts of domestic creatures (except, kine, sheep, and goats), viz. asses and camels. Which Jacob brought with him, as well as oxen and sheep, when he came from Laban into Canaan, (Gen. xxxii. 5. 7.) And the increase of thy kine.] The breed of these was very profitable, being a considerable part of the riches not only of that, but of other countries; as appears by what Pausanias saith of them. (See Bochartus, par. i. Hierozoicon, lib. ii. cap. 40. in the beginning.) And the flocks of thy sheep.] Under the name of sheep, in the Hebrew, are comprehended goats also. All which God promis
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