Deuteronomio 30

Bendición a causa del arrepentimiento

1 »Cuando recibas todas estas bendiciones o sufras estas maldiciones de las que te he hablado, y las recuerdes en cualquier nación por donde el SEÑOR tu Dios te haya dispersado;

2 y cuando tú y tus hijos se vuelvan al SEÑOR tu Dios y le obedezcan con todo el corazón y con toda el alma, tal como hoy te lo ordeno,

3 entonces el SEÑOR tu Dios restaurará tu buena fortuna^[a] y se compadecerá de ti. ¡Volverá a reunirte de todas las naciones por donde te haya dispersado!

4 Aunque te encuentres desterrado en el lugar más distante de la tierra, desde allá el SEÑOR tu Dios te traerá de vuelta, y volverá a reunirte.

5 Te hará volver a la tierra que perteneció a tus antepasados, y tomarás posesión de ella. Te hará prosperar, y tendrás más descendientes que los que tuvieron tus antepasados.

6 El SEÑOR tu Dios quitará lo pagano que haya en tu corazón^[b] y en el de tus descendientes, para que lo ames con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma, y así tengas vida.

7 Además, el SEÑOR tu Dios hará que todas estas maldiciones caigan sobre tus enemigos, los cuales te odian y persiguen.

8 Y tú volverás a obedecer al SEÑOR y a cumplir todos sus mandamientos, tal como hoy te lo ordeno.

9 Entonces el SEÑOR tu Dios te bendecirá con mucha prosperidad en todo el trabajo de tus manos y en el fruto de tu vientre, en las crías de tu ganado y en las cosechas de tus campos. El SEÑOR se complacerá de nuevo en tu bienestar, así como se deleitó en la prosperidad de tus antepasados,

10 siempre y cuando obedezcas al SEÑOR tu Dios y cumplas sus mandamientos y preceptos, escritos en este libro de la ley, y te vuelvas al SEÑOR tu Dios con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma.

Elección entre la vida y la muerte

11 »Este mandamiento que hoy te ordeno obedecer no es superior a tus fuerzas ni está fuera de tu alcance.

12 No está arriba en el cielo, para que preguntes: “¿Quién subirá al cielo por nosotros, para que nos lo traiga, y así podamos escucharlo y obedecerlo?”

13 Tampoco está más allá del océano, para que preguntes: “¿Quién cruzará por nosotros hasta el otro lado del océano, para que nos lo traiga, y así podamos escucharlo y obedecerlo?”

14 ¡No! La palabra está muy cerca de ti; la tienes en la boca y en el corazón, para que la obedezcas.

15 »Hoy te doy a elegir entre la vida y la muerte, entre el bien y el mal.

16 Hoy te ordeno que ames al SEÑOR tu Dios, que andes en sus caminos, y que cumplas sus mandamientos, preceptos y leyes. Así vivirás y te multiplicarás, y el SEÑOR tu Dios te bendecirá en la tierra de la que vas a tomar posesión.

17 »Pero si tu corazón se rebela y no obedeces, sino que te desvías para adorar y servir a otros dioses,

18 te advierto hoy que serás destruido sin remedio. No vivirás mucho tiempo en el territorio que vas a poseer luego de cruzar el Jordán.

19 »Hoy pongo al cielo y a la tierra por testigos contra ti, de que te he dado a elegir entre la vida y la muerte, entre la bendición y la maldición. Elige, pues, la vida, para que vivan tú y tus descendientes.

20 Ama al SEÑOR tu Dios, obedécelo y sé fiel a él, porque de él depende tu vida, y por él vivirás mucho tiempo en el territorio que juró dar a tus antepasados Abraham, Isaac y Jacob».

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. "restaurará tu buena fortuna" . Alt. "te hará volver del destierro" .
• [b]. "quitará lo pagano que haya en tu corazón" . Lit. "circuncidará tu corazón" .

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.