Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve… 1. It is here supposed that a nation must be of some religion or other. Joshua does not put this to their choice, but takes it for granted. 2. That though religion be a matter of choice, yet it is neither a thing indifferent in itself nor to a good governor, what religion his people are of. 3. That true religion may have several prejudices and objections against it: "If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord"; intimating that, upon some accounts, and to some persons, it may appear so. 4. That the true religion hath those real advantages on its side, that it may safely be referred to any considerate man's choice. 5. The example of princes and governors hath a very great influence upon the people in matters of religion. (Archbp. Tillotson.) Parallel Verses KJV: And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. |
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