Deuteronomio 30

1 Y será que, cuando te vinieren todas estas cosas, la bendición y la maldición que he puesto delante de ti, y volvieres a tu corazón en medio de todos los gentiles a las cuales el SEÑOR tu Dios te echare

2 y te convirtieres al SEÑOR tu Dios, y oyeres su voz conforme a todo lo que yo te mando hoy, tú y tus hijos, con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma

3 el SEÑOR también volverá tu cautividad, y tendrá misericordia de ti, y volverá, y te recogerá de todos los pueblos a los cuales te hubiere esparcido el SEÑOR tu Dios

4 Si hubieres sido arrojado hasta el extremo de los cielos, de allí te recogerá el SEÑOR tu Dios, y de allá te tomará

5 y te volverá el SEÑOR tu Dios a la tierra que heredaron tus padres, y la heredarás; y te hará bien, y te multiplicará más que a tus padres

6 Y circuncidará el SEÑOR tu Dios tu corazón, y el corazón de tu simiente, para que ames al SEÑOR tu Dios con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma, a fin de que tú vivas

7 Y pondrá el SEÑOR tu Dios todas estas maldiciones sobre tus enemigos, y sobre tus aborrecedores que te persiguieron

8 Y tú volverás, y oirás la voz del SEÑOR, y pondrás por obra todos sus mandamientos, que yo te mando hoy

9 Y te hará el SEÑOR tu Dios abundar en toda obra de tus manos, en el fruto de tu vientre, en el fruto de tu bestia, y en el fruto de tu tierra, para bien; porque el SEÑOR se convertirá para gozarse sobre ti para bien, de la manera que se gozó sobre tus padres

10 cuando oyeres la voz del SEÑOR tu Dios, para guardar sus mandamientos y sus estatutos escritos en este libro de la ley; cuando te convirtieres al SEÑOR tu Dios con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma

11 Porque este mandamiento que yo te mando hoy, no te es encubierto, ni está lejos

12 No está en el cielo, para que digas: ¿Quién subirá por nosotros al cielo, y nos lo tomará y nos lo recitará, para que lo cumplamos

13 Ni está al otro lado del mar, para que digas: ¿Quién pasará por nosotros el mar, para que nos lo tome y nos lo recite, a fin de que lo cumplamos

14 Porque muy cerca de ti está la palabra, en tu boca y en tu corazón, para que la cumplas

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

16 porque yo te mando hoy que ames al SEÑOR tu Dios, que andes en sus caminos, y guardes sus mandamientos y sus estatutos y sus derechos, para que vivas y seas multiplicado, y el SEÑOR tu Dios te bendiga en la tierra a la cual entras para heredarla

17 Mas si tu corazón se apartare, y no oyeres, y fueres incitado, y te inclinares a dioses ajenos, y les sirvieres

18 os protesto hoy que de cierto pereceréis; no tendréis largos días sobre la tierra, para ir a la cual pasas el Jordán para que la heredes

19 A los cielos y a la tierra llamo por testigos hoy contra vosotros, que os he puesto delante la vida y la muerte, la bendición y la maldición; escoge, pues, la vida, para que vivas tú y tu simiente

20 que ames al SEÑOR tu Dios, que oigas su voz, y te acerques a él; porque él es tu vida, y la longitud de tus días; a fin de que habites sobre la tierra que juró el SEÑOR a tus padres Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob, que les había de dar

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.