Deuteronomy 30:4

4 Even if you are exiled to the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.

Deuteronomy 30:4 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 30:4

If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of
heaven
As many of them are in this remote island of ours, Great Britain, reckoned formerly the uttermost part of the earth, as Thule, supposed to be Schetland, an isle belonging to Scotland, is said to be {m}; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 28:49); and as some of them are thought to be in America, which Manasseh Ben Israel F14 had a firm belief of:

from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee;
whose eye is omniscient, and reaches every part of the world; and whose arm is omnipotent, and none can stay it, or turn it back. The Targum of Jonathan is,

``from thence will he bring you near by the hands of the King Messiah.''


FOOTNOTES:

F13 "Ultima Thule", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 30. Seneca Medea, Act 2. in fine.
F14 Spes Israelis, sect. 38.

Deuteronomy 30:4 In-Context

2 and return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today,
3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.
4 Even if you are exiled to the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
5 The Lord your God will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
6 Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.

Footnotes 1

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