John Calvin Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:3

John Calvin Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:3 - 9:3

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John Calvin Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:3 - 9:3

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9:1 - 9:1
9:3 - 9:3
9:4 - 9:4
9:5 - 9:5
9:7 - 9:7
9:17 - 9:17
9:18 - 9:18
9:20 - 9:20
9:22 - 9:22
9:25 - 9:25

3.Understand therefore this day. He concludes from what has preceded that the Israelites would be too perverse, unless they acknowledge that their enemies were overcome by the hand of God; and, still more to heighten the miracle, he uses a similitude, comparing God to a fire, which consumes so many nations in an unwonted and incredible manner. It is as if he had said, that it could not be effected by human or ordinary means that so many and such warlike peoples could thus quickly perish. Elsewhere God is called “ consuming fire” in a different sense, that we may fear his wrath and power; but here Moses only means that the destruction of the Canaanitish nations was His wonderful work.