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Inexhaustible Judgment
Commentators explain that this verse acts as a comprehensive "catch-all" clause. After listing many specific curses, Moses adds that God can bring any unlisted sickness or plague. This highlights that God's power to judge disobedience is limitless and His resources for enacting justice are inexhaustible, as one scholar notes, He is "armed with yet other weapons."
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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 28:61
19th Century
Bishop
Every sickness and every plague (or “smiting; ” Hebrew, Makkah) which is not written. Well might the Apo…
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 28:61
16th Century
Theologian
Also every sickness and every plague. This passage confirms what I have said about the plague and the sickness, for the sickness stands fi…
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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 28:61
17th Century
Pastor
Also every sickness and every plague which [is] not written in
the book of this law
W…
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…