Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 5. He shall live in them.] As the flame lives in the oil, as the creature by his food, so the spiritual life is maintained by an evangelical keeping of God's commandments. As on the contrary, every motion of the soul out of this way, tends to death; being as the motion of the fish out of his element.