Deuteronomy 29:10-11. Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
This national covenant embraced all the great men, the captains, the wise men, all that were in authority, "your elders, and your officers." It took in all their children, for it was a covenant according to the flesh, and their children according to the flesh are included. "Your wives," too, for in this matter their was no sex. "The stranger also." Here we poor Gentiles get a glimpse of comfort, even though from that old covenant we seem to be shut out. "Thy stranger that is in thy camp" is included. And the poorest, and those that performed the most menial service, were all to be made partakers of this covenant, "from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water."
Deuteronomy 29:10-11. Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
This national covenant embraced all the great men, the captains, the wise men, all that were in authority, "your elders, and your officers." It took in all their children, for it was a covenant according to the flesh, and their children according to the flesh are included. "Your wives," too, for in this matter their was no sex. "The stranger also." Here we poor Gentiles get a glimpse of comfort, even though from that old covenant we seem to be shut out. "Thy stranger that is in thy camp" is included. And the poorest, and those that performed the most menial service, were all to be made partakers of this covenant, "from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water."