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The Purpose of the Wilderness
Commentators agree that the 40-year wilderness journey was not a mistake but a deliberate training ground. God used this extended period of hardship to humble His people and to test them. This reveals that difficult seasons in a believer's life are often God's tools for spiritual formation, designed to produce humility and proven character.
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Deuteronomy
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Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 8:2
19th Century
Bishop
THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE EXODUS.
And you shall remember. —The whole of the remainder of this exhortation, to…
Charles Spurgeon
On Deuteronomy 8:2
19th Century
Preacher
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to …
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 8:2
17th Century
Pastor
And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led
you these forty years in the wilderness<…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 8:1–9
17th Century
Minister
Obedience must be:
- Careful, to observe and do;
- Universal, to do all the commandments; and
- From a good principle, wit…