the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
Moses here tells the people of Israel, I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in Christ blessed us. 1. Here is election: The Lord hath chosen thee, v: 2.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 14:1-21
And every beast that parted the hoof,.... In this and the two following verses two general rules are given, by which it might be known what beasts were fit for food and what not; one is if they parted the hoof, and the other if they chewed the cud, such might be eaten; but such that only chewed the cud, but did not divide the...
WHAT MAY BE EATEN, AND WHAT NOT. (Deu. 14:3-21) Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing--that is, anything forbidden as unclean (see on Lev 11:1).
Commenting on Deuteronomy 14:3-21