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individuals, at least, we may take a useful 

 lesson from it ; let us beware of the seductions of 

 prosperity, lest our hearts become too much 

 engrossed by the happiness that we enjoy, or 

 too much depressed by the salutary disappoint- 

 ments that we sometimes undergo. 



" The fourth part, from the nineteenth verse 

 to the end of the twenty-fifth, expresses the indig- 

 nation of the Lord, and his threats of rejecting 

 apostate Israel, and of adopting in their room 

 the believing Gentiles. It is quoted by St. 

 Paul, as having that interpretation ; and I will 

 only further remark, that it is written with the 

 most awful strength that language can supply ; 

 and that all its denunciations have been literally 

 accomplished. 



<fc The fifth division, to the end of verse 35, 

 states the wise and gracious reasons of the dis- 

 persion of the Jews into all lands, both for their 

 ultimate preservation, and to prevent their ene- 

 mies from vainly ascribing to themselves their 

 destruction. It was not indeed from any merit 

 of their own that those enemies were allowed to 

 triumph, they were only employed as the instru- 

 ments of punishment ; and God declares in the 

 sequel that they will have to answer for their 

 own corruptions and idolatries in the day of 

 vengeance. 



" * For their rock is not as our Rock; even 

 our enemies themselves being judges.' This 



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