Deuteronomy 28:32 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 32. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, &c.— In several countries, Spain and Portugal particularly, the children of the Jews have been taken from them by order of the government, to be educated in the popish religion. The fourth council of Toledo ordered, that all their children should be taken from them, for fear they should partake of their errors; and that they should be shut up in monasteries to be instructed in the Christian truths. And when they were banished from Portugal, as Mariana observes, book 26: chap. 6. "The king ordered all their children under fourteen years of age to be taken from them and baptized; a practice," adds the historian, "not at all justifiable, because none ought to be forced to become Christians, nor ought children to be taken from their parents." Bishop Newton. It is added, thine eyes shall fail with longing for them; i.e. thine expectation of seeing their return shall fail, and be turned into despair. See Psalms 69:3; Psalms 119:82 and Jackson on the Creed, book 1: chap. 27.