“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. This day: shortly I must die. Calmet.—Metam properamus ad unam. (Hor.) “We hasten to one common goal.” Bible.—The pagans called death, or the grave, the common place; and Plautus says, in the same sense, Quin prius me ad plures penetravi. ( Calmet.) “Before I penetrate the receptacle of the many.” Bible.—Mind. Hebrew “you know in your hearts, and in all your souls;” you are convinced, you cannot be ignorant that God has fulfilled his engagements. Calmet.—The Septuagint read, “you shall know,” and so forth The experience of future ages will only establish this truth more fully. Bible.