Deuteronomy 30:4

4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.

Deuteronomy 30:4 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 30:4

If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of
heaven
As many of them are in this remote island of ours, Great Britain, reckoned formerly the uttermost part of the earth, as Thule, supposed to be Schetland, an isle belonging to Scotland, is said to be {m}; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 28:49); and as some of them are thought to be in America, which Manasseh Ben Israel ^F14 had a firm belief of:

from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee;
whose eye is omniscient, and reaches every part of the world; and whose arm is omnipotent, and none can stay it, or turn it back. The Targum of Jonathan is,

``from thence will he bring you near by the hands of the King Messiah.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 "Ultima Thule", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 30. Seneca Medea, Act 2. in fine.
F14 Spes Israelis, sect. 38.

Deuteronomy 30:4 In-Context

2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.

4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.

5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.

6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.