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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Deuteronomy 30
turn thy captivity. Figure of speech Paronomasia. Hebrew veshab. eth-shebuthka. Compare Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15. Jeremiah 30:3. Idiom for relief from any trouble. Compare Job 42:10.
nations = peoples.
hand. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read plural "hands".
rejoice. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. Compare Deuteronomy 28:63. Jeremiah 32:41.
as = according as.
statutes. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1.
this book of the law. See App-47, and compare 2 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 23:25. See note on Exodus 17:14.
See = Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
life and good, and death and evil. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect). App-6. Put for the good things which end in life, and evil things which end in death. Compare Amos 5:14.
evil. See App-44.
In that. The Septuagint reads, "For thou must keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God which", instead of "In that". So that this clause apparently was in the Manuscript from which the Septuagint was translated.
I call. Figure of speech Deasis, or, Obtestatio. App-6.
heaven and earth = the heavens and the earth. One of thirteen occurrences. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26.
to record = to witness.
in the land = on the soil. Hebrew. "adamah.
thy fathers. All three Patriarchs are named. See note on Genesis 50:24.
them. This is the end of the sixth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1.
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