It must have been a very interesting moment this, when Moses, acting as the minister of JEHOVAH, made this appeal to the people. There is nothing we need more, than to be reminded of past mercies. And hence, one of the most precious offices of the HOLY GHOST is, when he mercifully acts as our Remembrancer, to bring to our recollection the tender manifestations of JESUS'S love. John 14:26. Reader! hath the HOLY SPIRIT indeed brought to your remembrance, all that the LORD your GOD hath done for you in Egypt? Do you call to mind the great temptations, and signs, and miracles of grace Oh! how delightful the subject, thus to look back, and behold the way the LORD our GOD hath been bringing his people out of this wilderness. Deuteronomy 8:2-5.
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Deuteronomy 29:1-3
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: