THE DECALOGUE--ITS SUBSTANCE 73 CHAPTER VI THE MEDIATORSHIP OF MOSES 106 DEUT. v. 22-33. CHAPTER VII LOVE TO GOD THE LAW OF LIFE 116 DEUT. vi. 4, 5. CHAPTER VIII EDUCATION--MOSAIC VIEW 146 DEUT. vi. 6-25. CHAPTER IX THE BAN 168 DEUT. vii. CHAPTER X THE BAN IN MODERN LIFE 184 CHAPTER XI THE BREAD OF THE SOUL 202 DEUT. viii. CHAPTER XII ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS 218 DEUT. ix.-xi. CHAPTER XIII LAW AND RELIGION 239 DEUT. xii.-xxvi. CHAPTER XIV LAWS OF SACRIFICE 253 DEUT. xii. CHAPTER XV THE RELATION OF OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICE TO CHRISTIANITY 267 CHAPTER XVI LAWS AGAINST IDOLATROUS ACTS AND CUSTOMS 277 DEUT. xiii., xiv. CHAPTER XVII THE SPEAKERS FOR GOD--I. THE KING 295 DEUT. xvii. 14-20 CHAPTER XVIII SPEAKERS FOR GOD--II. THE PRIEST 308 DEUT. xviii. 1-8 CHAPTER XIX SPEAKERS FOR GOD--III. THE PROPHET 334 DEUT. xviii. 9-22 CHAPTER XX THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE 355 CHAPTER XXI JUSTICE IN ISRAEL 377 CHAPTER XXII LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) 396 CHAPTER XXIII LAWS OF KINDNESS 411 CHAPTER XXIV MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES 433 DEUT. iv. 1-40, xxvii.-xxx. CHAPTER XXV THE SONG AND BLESSING OF MOSES 452 DEUT. xxxii., xxxiii. CHAPTER XXVI MOSES' CHARACTER AND DEATH 471 CHAPTER I _THE AUTHORSHIP AND AGE OF DEUTERONOMY_ In approaching a book so spiritually great as Deuteronomy, it might seem superfluous to allude to the critical questions which have been raised concerning it. On any supposition as to origin and authorship, its spiritual elevation and the moral impulse it gives are always there; and it might consequently seem sufficient to expound and illustrate the text as we have it. Minute and vexatious inquiry into details, such as any adequate treatment of the critical question demands, tends to draw away the mind, in a disastrous way, from the spiritual and moral purpose of the book. That however is precisely what the expositor has to elucidate and apply; and so it might seem to be an error in method to enter upon extraneous matters such as those with which criticism has mainly to do.