You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Days. The reward of dutiful children. Exodus 20:12. These are models of those Christians who follow the rule of some virtuous person, in order to be at a greater distance from any transgression of the law, and to observe it with more perfection. Calmet.—“If a father could lay such an injunction on his descendants, and they receive commendation for observing it, why may not the fathers of the Church enjoin things which are not of themselves necessary, but … useful to avoid the occasions of evil, or to advance in virtue?” says Grotius, a Protestant, after S. Jerom, (ad Paulin.) Saint Augustine in Ps. lxx. and so forth Bible. Jonadab exhorted, and prescribed this rule, but it was not properly a command, being too arduous. Tirinus.