That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile
it
By sinning on it, and so rendering it obnoxious to the curse of
God, as the whole earth originally was for the sin of man; and so
be cast out of it, as Adam was out of paradise, and as the
Israelites might expect to be cast out of Canaan, as the old
inhabitants of it had been: as it spewed out the nations
that [were] before you;
which for the certainty of it is spoken of as done, though it was
as yet future; and what the Lord did is ascribed to the land, the
more to aggravate their crying sins and abominations, for which
the land mourned, and which it could not bear.
Leviticus 18:28
