Deuteronomy 32:52

52 Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, [that is], into the land that I [am] giving to the {Israelites}."

Deuteronomy 32:52 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:52

Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee]
Which Jarchi interprets, afar off; and so does Noldius ^F3; he saw it at a distance, as the Old Testament saints saw the things promised afar off, and were persuaded of them, though they did not enjoy them, ( Hebrews 11:13 ) :

but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children
of Israel;
the land of Canaan was a gift of God to Israel, into which they were not to be introduced by Moses, but by Joshua; signifying that eternal life, or the heavenly Canaan, is the gift of God through Christ, the antitype of Joshua, and not to obtained by the works of the law.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Ebr. part. Concord. p. 626. so Ainsworth.

Deuteronomy 32:52 In-Context

50 You shall die on that mountain that you [are] about to go up there, and [you will] be gathered to your people, [just] as your brother Aaron died on {Mount Hor} and he was gathered to his people,

51 because [of the fact] that you broke faith with me in the midst of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, [in] the desert of Zin, because {you did not treat me as holy} in the midst of the {Israelites}.

52 Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, [that is], into the land that I [am] giving to the {Israelites}."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"