SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:44
Y aun con todo esto, estando ellos en tierra de sus enemigos, yo no los desecharé, ni los abominaré para consumirlos, invalidando mi pacto con ellos; porque yo el SEÑOR soy su Dios.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:44
Verse 44. Neither will I abhor them to destroy them utterly] Though God has literally fulfilled all his threatenings upon this people in dispossessing them of their land, destroying their polity, overturning their city, demolishing their temple, and scattering themselves over the face of the whole earth; yet he has, in his providence, strangely preserved them as a distinct people, and in very considerable numbers also. He still remembers the covenant of their ancestors, and in his providence and grace he has some very important design in their favour. All Israel shall yet be saved, and, with the Gentiles, they shall all be restored to his favour; and under Christ Jesus, the great Shepherd; become, with them, one grand everlasting fold.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 44. And yet for all that , etc.] I will have on them, in or through my Word, as the Targum of Jonathan; notwithstanding their many and great sins and transgressions, and the sad and miserable condition they were brought into by them, the Lord would have mercy on them and be gracious to them, through Christ and for his sake, and convert and save them, (see Romans 11:26,27); the Jews, as Fagius tells us, wonderfully delight themselves with this passage, and read it with the greatest joy and pleasure, and with an elevated voice; concluding from hence that they shall certainly return to their own land; and because the first word in this verse is in sound the same as the Germans use for an “ape”, they call this paragraph “the golden ape”, and say, when this shall be fulfilled the golden age will take place with them: a very learned man has wrote a dissertation upon it: when they shall be in the land of their enemies ; of the Romans and other nations, among whom they have been disposed ever since the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus: I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly ; for though they have been cast away by the Lord out of their land, and from being his people, and enjoying either the civil or religious privileges they formerly did; and though they have been cast off with abhorrence, and had in great detestation by him, for their sin of rejecting the Messiah, as appears by the punishment inflicted on them; yet not so as to make an utter end of them as a body of people, for, notwithstanding their dispersion everywhere, and their long captivity, they remain a distinct people from all others, which seems to forebode something favourable to them: and to break my covenant with them ; which he will not do, even his promise of the future call and conversion of them, and of their return to their own land: for I [am] the Lord their God ; their covenant God, and a covenant keeping God, ( Romans 11:27).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 40-46 - Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicte according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperit was the effect of national obedience, and national judgments wer brought on by national wickedness. Israel was under a peculia covenant. National wickedness will end in the ruin of any people especially where the word of God and the light of the gospel ar enjoyed. Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the reproach, of every people. Oh that, being humbled for our sins, we might avert the rising storm before it bursts upon us! God grant tha we may, in this our day, consider the things which belong to ou eternal peace __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואף 637 גם 1571 זאת 2063 בהיותם 1961 בארץ 776 איביהם 341 לא 3808 מאסתים 3988 ולא 3808 געלתים 1602 לכלתם 3615 להפר 6565 בריתי 1285 אתם 854 כי 3588 אני 589 יהוה 3068 אלהיהם׃ 430
