Deuteronomio 30

1 Y sucederá que cuando todas estas cosas hayan venido sobre ti, la bendición y la maldición que he puesto delante de ti, y tú las recuerdes en todas las naciones adonde el SEÑOR tu Dios te haya desterrado,

2 y vuelvas al SEÑOR tu Dios, tú y tus hijos, y le obedezcas con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma conforme a todo lo que yo te ordeno hoy,

3 entonces el SEÑOR tu Dios te hará volver de tu cautividad, y tendrá compasión de ti y te recogerá de nuevo de entre todos los pueblos adonde el SEÑOR tu Dios te haya dispersado.

4 Si tus desterrados están en los confines de la tierra, de allí el SEÑOR tu Dios te recogerá y de allí te hará volver.

5 Y el SEÑOR tu Dios te llevará a la tierra que tus padres poseyeron, y tú la poseerás; y El te prosperará y te multiplicará más que a tus padres.

6 Además, el SEÑOR tu Dios circuncidará tu corazón y el corazón de tus descendientes, para que ames al SEÑOR tu Dios con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma, a fin de que vivas.

7 El SEÑOR tu Dios pondrá todas estas maldiciones sobre los enemigos y sobre los aborrecedores que te persiguieron.

8 Y tú volverás a escuchar la voz del SEÑOR, y guardarás todos sus mandamientos que yo te ordeno hoy.

9 Entonces el SEÑOR tu Dios te hará prosperar abundantemente en toda la obra de tu mano, en el fruto de tu vientre, en el fruto de tu ganado y en el producto de tu tierra, pues el SEÑOR de nuevo se deleitará en ti para bien, tal como se deleitó en tus padres,

10 si obedeces a la voz del SEÑOR tu Dios, guardando sus mandamientos y sus estatutos que están escritos en este libro de la ley, y si te vuelves al SEÑOR tu Dios con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma.

11 Este mandamiento que yo te ordeno hoy no es muy difícil para ti, ni fuera de tu alcance.

12 No está en el cielo, para que digas: "¿Quién subirá por nosotros al cielo para traérnoslo y hacérnoslo oír a fin de que lo guardemos?"

13 Ni está más allá del mar, para que digas: "¿Quién cruzará el mar por nosotros para traérnoslo y para hacérnoslo oír, a fin de que lo guardemos?"

14 Pues la palabra está muy cerca de ti, en tu boca y en tu corazón, para que la guardes.

15 Mira, yo he puesto hoy delante de ti la vida y el bien, la muerte y el mal;

16 pues te ordeno hoy amar al SEÑOR tu Dios, andar en sus caminos y guardar sus mandamientos, sus estatutos y sus juicios, para que vivas y te multipliques, a fin de que el SEÑOR tu Dios te bendiga en la tierra que vas a entrar para poseerla.

17 Pero si tu corazón se desvía y no escuchas, sino que te dejas arrastrar y te postras ante otros dioses y los sirves,

18 yo os declaro hoy que ciertamente pereceréis. No prolongaréis vuestros días en la tierra adonde tú vas, cruzando el Jordán para entrar en ella y poseerla.

19 Al cielo y a la tierra pongo hoy como testigos contra vosotros de que he puesto ante ti la vida y la muerte, la bendición y la maldición. Escoge, pues, la vida para que vivas, tú y tu descendencia,

20 amando al SEÑOR tu Dios, escuchando su voz y allegándote a El; porque eso es tu vida y la largura de tus días, para que habites en la tierra que el SEÑOR juró dar a tus padres Abraham, Isaac y Jacob.

Deuteronomio 30 Commentary

Chapter 30

Mercies promised to the repentant. (1-10) The commandment manifest. (11-14) Death and life set before them. (15-20)

Verses 1-10 In this chapter is a plain intimation of the mercy God has in store for Israel in the latter days. This passage refers to the prophetic warnings of the last two chapters, which have been mainly fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and in their dispersion to the present day; and there can be no doubt that the prophetic promise contained in these verses yet remain to come to pass. The Jewish nation shall in some future period, perhaps not very distant, be converted to the faith of Christ; and, many think, again settled in the land of Canaan. The language here used is in a great measure absolute promises; not merely a conditional engagement, but declaring an event assuredly to take place. For the Lord himself here engages to "circumcise their hearts;" and when regenerating grace has removed corrupt nature, and Divine love has supplanted the love of sin, they certainly will reflect, repent, return to God, and obey him; and he will rejoice in doing them good. The change that will be wrought upon them will not be only outward, or consisting in mere opinions; it will reach to their souls. It will produce in them an utter hatred of all sin, and a fervent love to God, as their reconciled God in Christ Jesus; they will love him with all their hearts, and with all their soul. They are very far from this state of mind at present, but so were the murderers of the Lord Jesus, on the day of Pentecost; who yet in one hour were converted unto God. So shall it be in the day of God's power; a nation shall be born in a day; the Lord will hasten it in his time. As a conditional promise this passage belongs to all persons and all people, not to Israel only; it assures us that the greatest sinners, if they repent and are converted, shall have their sins pardoned, and be restored to God's favour.

Verses 11-14 The law is not too high for thee. It is not only known afar off; it is not confined to men of learning. It is written in thy books, made plain, so that he who runs may read it. It is in thy mouth, in the tongue commonly used by thee, in which thou mayest hear it read, and talk of it among thy children. It is delivered so that it is level to the understanding of the meanest. This is especially true of the gospel of Christ, to which the apostle applies it. But the word is nigh us, and Christ in that word; so that if we believe with the heart, that the promises of the Messiah are fulfilled in our Lord Jesus, and confess them with our mouth, we then have Christ with us.

Verses 15-20 What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads misery. So great is the compassion of the Lord, that he has favoured men, by his word, with such a knowledge of good and evil as will make them for ever happy, if it be not their own fault. Let us hear the sum of the whole matter. If they and theirs would love God, and serve him, they should live and be happy. If they or theirs should turn from God, desert his service, and worship other gods, that would certainly be their ruin. There never was, since the fall of man, more than one way to heaven; which is marked out in both Testaments, though not with equal clearness. Moses meant that same way of acceptance, which Paul more plainly described; and Paul's words mean the same obedience, on which Moses more fully treated. In both Testaments the good and right way is brought near, and plainly revealed to us.

Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30

This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, and of the great increase of them, and of their enjoyment of plenty of good things, De 30:1-10; in it is an account of the Gospel, or word of faith, which at this time should be brought near to the Jews, and be received by them, De 30:11-14; and for the present Moses desires them to consider what he now set before them, and what would be the consequences of receiving or rejecting it, and so what it would be most proper for them to make choice of, De 30:15-20.