Geneva Bible Notes: Deuteronomy 4

Deuteronomy 4:1 (a) For this doctrine standeth not in bare knowldege, but in practise of life.

Deuteronomy 4:1 (!) An exhortacion to obserue the Lawe without adding thereto or diminishing.

Deuteronomy 4:2 (b) Thinke not to be more wise then I am.

Deuteronomy 4:2 (c) God wil not be serued by halves, but wil haue ful obedience.

Deuteronomy 4:3 (d) Gods judgements executed vpon other idolaters oght to serue for our instruction.

Deuteronomy 4:4 (e) And were not idolaters.

Deuteronomy 4:6 (/) Or, surely.

Deuteronomy 4:6 (!) Herein standeth our wisdome.

Deuteronomy 4:6 (f) Because all men naturally desire wisdome, he sheweth how to attein vnto it.

Deuteronomy 4:7 (g) Helpeing vs, and deliuering vs out of all dangers.

Deuteronomy 4:9 (h) He addeth all these wordes to shewe that we can neuer be careful ynough to kepe the lawe of God and to teache it to our posteritie.

Deuteronomy 4:9 (!) We must teache it to our children.

Deuteronomy 4:11 (i) The law was giuen with feareful miracles, to declare bothe that God was the autor thereof, & also that no flesh was able to abide the rigour of the same.

Deuteronomy 4:13 (k) God joineth this condicion to his couenant.

Deuteronomy 4:15 (l) Signifyng that destruction is prepared for all them that make anie image to represent God.

Deuteronomy 4:15 (/) Ebr, soules.

Deuteronomy 4:15 (!) No image oght to be made to worship.

Deuteronomy 4:19 (m) He hathe appointed them for to serue man.

Deuteronomy 4:20 (n) He hathe deliuered you out of the moste miserable slauerie, and frely chosen you for his children.

Deuteronomy 4:22 (o) Moses good affection appeareth: in that that he being depriued of suche an execellent treasure, doeth not envie them that must enjoye it.

Deuteronomy 4:24 (p) To those that come not vnto him with loue and reuerence, but rebelle against him, {Ebr 12,29}.

Deuteronomy 4:25 (q) Meaning hereby all supersticion and corruption of the true seruice of God.

Deuteronomy 4:26 (r) Thogh men wolde absolve you, yet the insensible creatures shalbe witnesses of your disobedience.

Deuteronomy 4:26 (!) Threatenings against them that forsake the Law of God.

Deuteronomy 4:27 (s) So that his curse shal make his former blessings of none effect.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (t) Not with outwarde shew or ceremonie, but with a true confession, of thy fautes.

Deuteronomy 4:30 (/) Ebr. in the later dais.

Deuteronomy 4:31 (u) To certifie them the more of the asseurance of their salvacion.

Deuteronomy 4:32 (x) Mans negligence is partely cause that he knoweth not God.

Deuteronomy 4:34 (y) By so manifest prosses that none colde doute thereof.

Deuteronomy 4:35 (z) He sheweth the cause, why God wroght these miracles.

Deuteronomy 4:37 (a) Frely, & not of their desertes.

Deuteronomy 4:37 (!) God chose the sede because he loued their fathers.

Deuteronomy 4:40 (b) God promiseth rewarde not for our merites, but to incourage vs, and to assure vs that our labour shal not be lost.

Deuteronomy 4:43 (!) The thre cities of refuge.

Deuteronomy 4:45 (c) The articles and pointes of the couenant.

Deuteronomy 4:49 (d) That is, the salt Sea.