He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. He found. Septuagint and Chal. “he gave him what was sufficient, in the desert land.” God made a choice of a nation destitute of every thing, that they might confess with gratitude that they had received all from him. Calmet.—“Taught him” both by “instructions,” and by various “chastisements.” Septuagint epaideusen. Bible.—The space of forty years was necessary ( Calmet.) to eradicate the propensity to evil, and the corrupt manners of the Hebrews, who were therefore conducted through a wilderness, where they might not be contaminated by the company of other nations, ( Bible.) but might have leisure to meditate on the law of God. Calmet.—Eye, with the utmost care. Menochius.—He protected those whom he had chosen ou of pure mercy. Worthington.