03/27/2024 – “The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:29 / Commentaries attached
I encourage everyone to let scripture testify to scripture by reading the Bible verses that these two strong warriors have left behind for us, available free at our finger tips.
John Gill commentary:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/deuteronomy-29-29.html
An excerpt from Matthew Henry’s chapter 29 commentary:
“We are forbidden curiously to enquirer into the secret counsels of God. A full answer is given to that question. Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land? Sufficient to justify God and admonish us. But if any ask further why God would be at such a vast expense of miracles to form such a people, whose apostasy and ruin he plainly foresaw, why he did not by his almighty grace prevent it, or what he intends yet to do with them, let such know that these are questions which cannot be answered. See Acts 1:7 ; John 21:22; Colossians 2:18. We are directed and encouraged diligently to enquirer into that which God has made know: things revealed belong to us and to our children. Note, 1. Though God has kept much of his counsel secret, yet there is enough revealed to satisfy and save us. He has kept back nothing that is profitable for us. 2. We ought to acquaint ourselves, and our children too, with the things of God that are revealed. We are not only allowed to search into them, but are concerned to do so. They are things which we and ours are closely interested in. They are the rules we are to live by, the grants we are to live upon; and therefore we are to learn them diligently ourselves, and to teach them diligently to our children. 3. All our knowledge must be in order to practice, for this is the end of divine revelation, not to furnish us with curious subjects of speculation and discourse with which to entertain ourselves and our friends, but that we may do all the words of this law, and be blessed in our deed.”
(*) Matthew Henry’s commentary is also available free on the web with either concise or complete chapter summaries, whereas John Gill’s is verse by verse.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/deuteronomy/29.html