J. W. McGarvey's Class Notes on Sacred History I [Deuteronomy].

J. W. McGarvey
Class Notes on Sacred History, Volume I (1893)

DEUTERONOMY.

GENERAL DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK.

Part First. A Discourse by Moses containing A Review of the Wanderings, with Lessons and Exhortations. i. 1-iv. 43.
Part Second. A Discourse Containing Repetitions of Some Laws; Some New Laws; and Exhortations Concerning All. iv. 44-xxvi. 19.
Part Third. A Prophetic Discourse, Setting Forth the Future Results of Obedience and Disobedience. xxvii. 1-xxx. 20.
Part Fourth. Miscellaneous; Charges to Joshua and the Levites; the Song of Moses; A Prophetic Blessing of the Tribes; and the Death of Moses. xxxi. 1-xxxiv. 12.

PART FIRST. i. 1-iv. 43.

§ I. NEW HISTORICAL ITEMS IN THE FIRST DISCOURSE. i. 1-iv. 43.

1. The Preface. i. 1-5.

By whom written?
Why state the distance from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea? 2.
When was the first discourse delivered? 3. [94]
How long before the end of the forty years?

2. The Organization Proposed by Jethro Was Approved by the People. 14.

3. The Character of the Wilderness. 19.

4. The Mission of the Spies Was Proposed by the People. 22, cf. Num. xiii. 1, 2.

5. The Reason why Moab Was Spared. ii. 9.

6. An Interpolation Concerning the Former Inhabitants of Moab and Edom. 10-12.

7. The Point at which all of the First Generation Had Died. 13-18.

Were the sinners of Baal-peor of the first generation, or the second? Cf. Num. xxv. 1-3.

8. The Land of Ammon Spared, and why. 19.

9. Another Interpolation. 20-23.

10. Further Account of Og and His Kingdom. iii. 4, 5, 11.

11. An Interpolation concerning Havoth-jair. 13, 14.

12. A Prayer of Moses and Its Answer. 23-29.

13. Warning against Adding to the Word or Taking from It. iv. 2, cf. Rev. xxii. 18, 19.

14. Moses Selects the Eastern Cities off Refuge. 41-43.

When this done? Cf. iv. 40, 44. [95]

PART SECOND. iv. 44-xxvi. 19.

§ I. NEW HISTORICAL ITEMS IN THE SECOND DISCOURSE. iv. 44-xxvi. 19.

1. Preface to This Discourse. iv. 44-49.

Why the following speech styled "law," "testimonies," "statutes," and "judgments"? 44, 45.

2. A Specimen Exhortation. v. 22-33.

3. Reason for the Long Stay in the Wilderness. viii. 2-4.

Is the remark about raiment literal? 4.

4. Why Israel Permitted To Take Canaan. ix. 4, 5.

5. A Disconnected Interpolation. x. 6-9.

6. The Closing Exhortation. xxvi. 16-19.

PART THIRD. xxvii. 1-xxx. 20.

§ I. HISTORICAL ITEMS IN THE THIRD DISCOURSE. xxvii. 1-xxx. 20.

1. A Solemn Ceremonial To Be Observed at Mount Ebal. xxvii. 1-26.

How much of the law to be written? 8, 10, 15-26.
What class of sins to be denounced? 15-26.
Purpose of this ceremonial?

2. The Blessing To Follow Obedience. xxviii. 1-14.

Are they temporal? or spiritual?
Why?

3. The Curses To Follow Disobedience. 15-48.

4. Their Captivity Foretold. 49-68. [96]

5. A Covenant Announced. xxix. 1-29.

In what sense a covenant?

6. Repentance and Restoration Predicted. xxx. 1-10.

7. Obedience Not Too Hard for Them. 11-14.

8. The Alternative of Life or Death. 15-20.

PART FOURTH. xxxi. 1-xxxiv. 12.

§ I. HISTORICAL ITEMS IN PART FOURTH. xxxi. 1-xxxiv. 12.

1. Moses Announces His Own Death, and Encourages the People. xxxi. 1-8.

Why no more "go out and come in"? 2.
Was this his birthday? 2.
Why exhort them not to be afraid? 6.

2. The Law Written and Delivered to the Levites and Elders. 9-13.

Wrote which law? 9.
How much of Deuteronomy? i. 5.
Why not read it oftener? 10, 11.

3. Jehovah Foretells the Apostasy of Israel, and Encourages Joshua. 14-23.

What song? 19, 21, cf. xxxii. 1-43.
Why teach it to the people? 19, 22.

4. Another Order Concerning the Book of the Law. 24-29.

Did the book include this chapter? 24.
How, "by the side of the ark"? 26.
What words to be spoken to the elders? 28.

5. The Song of Moses. xxxii. 1-43.

6. Moses Ordered To Ascend Mount Nebo and Die. xxxii. 44-52.

Where is mount Nebo? 49.
Had he not already seen the land? [97]

7. The Tribes Are prophetically Blessed. xxxiii. 1-29.

Why Simeon omitted? Cf. Gen xlix. 5-7.

8. The Death of Moses and a Comment on His Career. xxxiv. 1-12.

Connection of Nebo and Pisgah? 1; Lands of the Bible, 372, 373.
Is the sea visible? 2.
Who wrote 1-8, and whence his information?
When and by whom were 9-12 written? See 10. [98]

[CNSH1 94-98]

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