* will put none.
The Israelites, if obedient, would have been subject to no
maladies but those common to fallen man, and generally very
healthy and long lived; being exempted from pestilential
diseases, which have often most tremendously scourged guilty
nations; and from such maladies in particular, as they had
witnessed in Egypt, by which God afflicted their cruel
oppressors, (Ex 15:26.) This must be referred to the national
covenant; for though godliness often secures the most solid
temporal advantages, yet temporal blessings were not, even
among them, uniformly dispensed to individuals according to
their obedience; but they were to the nation, with an
exactness which is not observed towards any other people.
Le 26:3,4
* will put none.
28:27,60 Ex 9:11 15:26 Ps 105:36,37
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