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I. THE REAL GROUND OF THE DUTY OF TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE FROM MAN TO MAN. It is not a work of choice, to be done or not done, to be done partially or done heartily and entirely, at our option and after our judgment; but a positive duty laid down and imposed upon us by the express command of the Most High.

II. WHAT KIND OF KNOWLEDGE GOD HAS COMMANDED TO BE IMPARTED.

1. God has specially honoured and particularly prescribed religious knowledge. Indeed, what can be more inconsistent or unwise, than to educate man for time, add to leave his soul unfitted, unstored, untaught for the measureless eternity through which it will endure?

2. God has not excluded other instruction.

III. THE TIME WHICH GOD PARTICULARLY SPECIFIES FOR IMPARTING INSTRUCTION (Deuteronomy 11:18, 19; Isaiah 28:9, etc.).

(C. Hebert, M. A.)

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KJV: For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

WEB: For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;