Error and falsity promise to direct and sustain, but they fail . God 's word is supported by his own faithfulness , and it supports and confirms them who conscientiously believe it. All these collectively are termed the LAW hrwt torah, or hwhy trwt torath Yehovah, the law of the Lord , from hry yarah, to direct, set straight and true, as stones in a building , to teach and instruct , because this whole system of Divine revelation is calculated to direct men to the attainment of present and eternal felicity, to set them right in their notions concerning the supreme God , to order and adjust them in the several departments of civil and religious society, and thus to teach and instruct them in the knowledge of themselves, and in the true knowledge of God . Thus those who receive the truth become the city of the living God -the temple of the Most High, built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. A whole train of evils are here personified and appointed to be the governors of a disobedient people.
Terror is to be one of their keepers .
Consumption, tpj shachepheth, generally allowed to be some kind of atrophy or marasmus, by which the flesh was consumed, and the whole body dried up by raging fever through lack of sustenance . Let a deist read over this chapter and compare it with the state of the Jews since the days of Vespasian, and then let him doubt the authenticity of this word if he can. God fulfilled these threatenings at different times. Though in general every family in the East bakes its own bread , yet there are some public bakehouses where the bread of several families is baked at a certain price . This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem .