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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, until you be destroyed.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
19th Century
Anglican
Every sickness and every plague (or “smiting; ” Hebrew, Makkah) which is not written. Well might the Apo…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Also every sickness and every plague which [is] not written in the book of this law W…
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…
