This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
1. And this is the blessing. The bitterness of the Song was seasoned, “Ceste benediction a este comme du suere,” etc.; this blessing was like sugar, etc. — Fr. as it were, by this palliative, wherein Moses left a testimony with respect to God’s future and perpetual grace, as if depositing an inestimable treasure in the hands of the people.
The first verse is the title of the chapter: it is a blessing. In the foregoing chapter he had thundered out the terrors of the Lord against Israel for their sin; it was a chapter like Ezekiel's roll, full of lamentation, and mourning, and woe.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 33:1-5
And this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. Namely, what is related in the following verses, this being the general title to the chapter: Moses is called "the man of God", being raised up of God, and eminently qualified by him with girls for the work he was called unto, and by whom he...