Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The Lord shall smite thee with madness - shiggaon , distraction, so that thou shalt not know what to do.
And blindness - ivvaron , blindness, both physical and mental; the garab , (Deuteronomy 28:27), destroying their eyes, and the judgments of God confounding their understandings.
Astonishment - timmahon , stupidity and amazement. By the just judgments of God they were so completely confounded, as not to discern the means by which they might prevent or remove their calamities, and to adopt those which led directly to their ruin. How true is the ancient saying, Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ! "Those whom God is determined to destroy, he first infatuates." But this applies not exclusively to the poor Jews: how miserably infatuated have the powers of the continent of Europe been, in all their councils and measures, for several years past! And what is the result? They have fallen - most deplorably fallen!
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Deuteronomy 28:28:
Joshua 8:33
Job 12:25
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