Study 5 From The Book of
Deuteronomy is: Deuteronomy 4:41 - 5:33
With chapter 5 begins Moses’
second discourse, extending to chapter
26 Chapter 4:44-49 is the introductory
superscription.
1.
What is the significance of the
pronouns ‘you’ and ‘your’ which occur throughout the ten commandments? Cf. Lv.
19:3; Ps. 62: 12; Je. 17:10 (‘every man’).
2.
The ways in which the people
reacted to the hearing of the commandments (5:23-27) indicate abiding
principles concerning the ways in which all men should react to God’s law. What kind of effect do the reactions here
suggest that God’s law should produce? Cf. Heb. 12:21; Rom. 7:9; Gal. 3:24.
3.
What was it in the temper of
the people that drew from God the words of commendation in 5:28, and the
expression of His desire that it might so continue always (verse 29)?
Note. 5:3. ‘Our fathers’: i.e.,
‘our forefathers’, viz. the patriarchs. Cf. 4:37; 7:8.
