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Astonishing Judgments
The term "wonderful" plagues can be confusing. Commentators explain it doesn't mean 'good' but rather 'astonishing' or 'remarkable.' The judgments for disobedience would be so visibly severe and distinct that they would cause wonder to all who witnessed them, serving as a clear sign of God's power.
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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…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 28:58–59
19th Century
Bishop
See Note on Deuteronomy 25:2-3.
This glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God. —The first Note of the Decalogue…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 28:59
17th Century
Pastor
Then the Lord will make your plagues wonderful
Visible, remarkable, distinguishable, and astonishing to all that see…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 28:45–68
17th Century
Minister
If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries His curse can bring upon humankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows…