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A Painful Reversal
Commentators explain that this curse is a complete reversal of God's intended blessing. Instead of being leaders who lend to others, disobedient Israel would become subservient to the foreigners living among them. As John Calvin notes, this shift from being the lender to the borrower would be a clear and painful sign that they had fallen from God's favor.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 28:15–68
18th Century
Theologian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 28:43
16th Century
Theologian
The stranger that is within you shall get up above you. This also was a clear sign of God’s wrath, that the foreigners who lived in the la…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 28:43
17th Century
Pastor
The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee
very high
In wealth and ri…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 28:15–44
17th Century
Minister
If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only fall short of the blessing promised, but we also lay ourselves under the curse, which includes al…