a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
One would have thought that enough had been said to possess them with a dread of that wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. But to show how deep the treasures of that wrath are, and that still there is more and worse behind, Moses, when one would have thought that he had concluded this dismal subject...
Commenting on Deuteronomy 28:45-68
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate,.... Not only the rustic that has been brought up meanly, and used to hard living; but one that has been bred very tenderly, and lived in a delicate manner, like the rich man in Luk 16:19; that fared sumptuously every day: his eye shall be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife...
A nation of fierce countenance--a just description of the Romans, who were not only bold and unyielding, but ruthless and implacable.