See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
All Commentaries on Deuteronomy 30:15 Go To Deuteronomy 30
Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
Let us ponder the nature of life and of death. Life is the enjoyment of the gift of breath, death the deprivation of it. Further, this gift of breath is considered by most people as a good. And so life is this, the enjoyment of goods, but death is the divestiture of them. And Scripture says, “Behold, I have set before your face life and death, good and evil,” for it calls life good and death evil and attributes to each its proper deserts.
