Deuteronômio 30

1 Quando te sobrevierem todas estas coisas, a bênção ou a maldição, que pus diante de ti, e te recordares delas entre todas as nações para onde o Senhor teu Deus te houver lançado,

2 e te converteres ao Senhor teu Deus, e obedeceres � sua voz conforme tudo o que eu te ordeno hoje, tu e teus filhos, de todo o teu coração e de toda a tua alma,

3 o Senhor teu Deus te fará voltar do teu cativeiro, e se compadecerá de ti, e tornará a ajuntar-te dentre todos os povos entre os quais te houver espalhado o senhor teu Deus.

4 Ainda que o teu desterro tenha sido para a extremidade do céu, desde ali te ajuntará o Senhor teu Deus, e dali te tomará;

5 e o Senhor teu Deus te trará � terra que teus pais possuíram, e a possuirás; e te fará bem, e te multiplicará mais do que a teus pais.

6 Também o Senhor teu Deus circuncidará o teu coração, e o coração de tua descendência, a fim de que ames ao Senhor teu Deus de todo o teu coração e de toda a tua alma, para que vivas.

7 E o Senhor teu Deus porá todas estas maldições sobre os teus inimigos, sobre aqueles que te tiverem odiado e perseguido.

8 Tu te tornarás, pois, e obedecerás � voz do Senhor, e observarás todos os seus mandamentos que eu hoje te ordeno.

9 Então o Senhor teu Deus te fará prosperar grandemente em todas as obras das tuas mãos, no fruto do teu ventre, e no fruto dos teus animais, e no fruto do teu solo; porquanto o Senhor tornará a alegrar-se em ti para te fazer bem, como se alegrou em teus pais;

10 quando obedeceres � voz do Senhor teu Deus, guardando os seus mandamentos e os seus estatutos, escritos neste livro da lei; quando te converteres ao Senhor teu Deus de todo o teu coração e de toda a tua alma.

11 Porque este mandamento, que eu hoje te ordeno, não te é difícil demais, nem tampouco está longe de ti.

12 Não está no céu para dizeres: Quem subirá por nós ao céu, e no-lo trará, e no-lo fará ouvir, para que o cumpramos?

13 Nem está além do mar, para dizeres: Quem passará por nós além do mar, e no-lo trará, e no-lo fará ouvir, para que o cumpramos?

14 Mas a palavra está mui perto de ti, na tua boca, e no teu coração, para a cumprires.

15 Vê que hoje te pus diante de ti a vida e o bem, a morte e o mal.

16 Se guardares o mandamento que eu hoje te ordeno de amar ao Senhor teu Deus, de andar nos seus caminhos, e de guardar os seus mandamentos, os seus estatutos e os seus preceitos, então viverás, e te multiplicarás, e o Senhor teu Deus te abençoará na terra em que estás entrando para a possuíres.

17 Mas se o teu coração se desviar, e não quiseres ouvir, e fores seduzido para adorares outros deuses, e os servires,

18 declaro-te hoje que certamente perecerás; não prolongarás os dias na terra para entrar na qual estás passando o Jordão, a fim de a possuíres.

19 O céu e a terra tomo hoje por testemunhas contra ti de que te pus diante de ti a vida e a morte, a bênção e a maldição; escolhe, pois, a vida, para que vivas, tu e a tua descendência,

20 amando ao Senhor teu Deus, obedecendo � sua voz, e te apegando a ele; pois ele é a tua vida, e o prolongamento dos teus dias; e para que habites na terra que o Senhor prometeu com juramento a teus pais, a Abraão, a Isaque e a Jacó, que lhes havia de dar.

Deuteronômio 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.