|Synopsis Home||Deuteronomy Introduction| Chapters 1 to 4
Chapters 5 to 7 Chapters 8 to 11 Chapters 12 and 13 Chapters 14
and 15 Chapters 16 and 17 Chapters 19 to 21 Chapters 22 to 25
Chapters 28 and 29 We now come to the book of Deuteronomy, a
book full of interest in its moral warnings as to testimony, but
presenting fewer subjects for interpretation and exegesis than
those, the summary of which we have hitherto sought to give. The
scope of Deuteronomy This book takes up Israel just on the
borders of Canaan, and insists upon the faithful maintenance of
their relationship with God, and on obedience to His
commandments, as the only ground on which Israel can enter and
continue therein, adding warnings as to the consequence of
failure in obedience. It takes, in the main, the ground of their
historical state (not of typical forms, presenting the thoughts
of God, as the books we have just been considering do).  The
body of it, after recalling the history of the wilderness, deals
with the ordering of Israel in th