The aim of the present volume (in accordance with the plan of the series, of which it forms part) is to supply the English reader with a Commentary which, so far as the writer’s powers permit it, may be abreast of the best scholarship and knowledge of the day. Deuteronomy is one of the most attractive, as it is also one of the most important, books of the Old Testament; and a Commentary which may render even approximate justice to its many-sided contents has for long been a desideratum in