EXODUS CHAPTER 3 Moses keeping Jethro's flock, cometh to mount Horeb, EXODUS 3:1. There God appears to him in a burning bush, EXODUS 3:2. Moses beholds it, EXODUS 3:3. God calls to him out of the burning bush, EXODUS 3:4; cautions him what to do, EXODUS 3:5,6. God seeth their afflictions, EXODUS 3:7... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD; not a created angel, but the Angel of the covenant, Christ Jesus, who then and ever was God, and was to be man, and to be sent into the world in our flesh, as a messenger from God. And these temporary apparitions of his were presages or forerunners of his more solemn mission a... [ Continue Reading ]
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He doubles the name, partly to show kindness and familiarity, and principally to make Moses more attentive to the business before him.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER; keep thy distance; whereby he checks his curiosity and forwardness, and works him to the greater reverence and humility. Compare EXODUS 19:12,21 JOS 5:15. PUT OFF THY SHOES: this he requires as an act and token, 1. Of his reverence to the Divine Majesty, then and there eminent... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD OF THY FATHERS, engaged to them by covenant or promise, which I am now come to perform. HE WAS AFRAID TO LOOK UPON GOD, as other excellent servants of God have been, through the sense of their own meanness and sinfulness, and of God's majesty and holiness. See GENESIS 16:13, GENESIS 17:3 1 K... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE SURELY SEEN; Heb. _In seeing, I have seen_, i.e. I have seen and observed it diligently, accurately, and certainly; for so much the doubling of the verb signifies.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM COME DOWN: this word notes God's manifestation of himself and his favour, and giving help from heaven. See GENESIS 18:21. It was A GOOD LAND AND A LARGE, not only comparatively to Goshen, where they now dwelt, and to the number of the Israelites at that time; but absolutely, if you take the Lan... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; either in prayer, or rather forced by their oppressions, as the next clause explains it.... [ Continue Reading ]
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What a mean, inconsiderable person am I! how unworthy and unfit for that employment! He was more forward in the work forty years ago, by reason of the fervours of his youth, his inexperience in affairs, the advantage of his power and interest in the court, by which he thought he could and should pro... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS SHALL BE A TOKEN UNTO THEE; either, 1. This vision; or, 2. The fulfilling of this promise, that I WILL BE WITH THEE by signs and wonders, and a strong hand; or rather, 3. This which here follows, that he and Israel should serve God there. Signs indeed are commonly given from things past or pr... [ Continue Reading ]
Since I must go to them in thy name, and thou hast variety of names and glorious titles, and some of them are ascribed to idols, not only by the Egyptians, but by too many of thy own people; what name shall I use, whereby both thou mayest be distinguished from false gods, and thy people may be encou... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THAT I AM; a most comprehensive and significant name, and most proper for the present occasion, It notes, 1. The reality of his being; whereas _idols are nothings_, 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4, all their divinity is only in the fancies and opinions of men. 2. The necessariness, eternity, and unchangeab... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD, Heb. _Jehovah_; a word of the same root and signification with _I am_. See EXODUS 6:3. This he adds, because God was best known to the Israelites by that name; and to show, that though he had given himself a new name, yet he was the same God. This is my memorial, by which I will be remembe... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELDERS; either by age, or rather by office and authority. For though they were all slaves to the Egyptians, yet among themselves they retained some order and government, and had doubtless some whom they owned as their teachers and rulers, as. heads of tribes and families, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
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HATH MET WITH US; hath appeared to us, expressing his displeasure for our neglect of him, and declaring his will that we should do what follows. THREE DAYS JOURNEY; to Sinai, which, going the nearest way, was no further from Egypt; for here God had declared he would be served, EXODUS 3:12. QUEST. Wa... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM SURE; I know it infallibly beforehand. NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND; though he see and feel the miraculous and dreadful works of a strong, yea, almighty hand, yet he will not consent to your going; which the history makes good. Nor did he let them go till he could hold them no longer, till the fear... [ Continue Reading ]
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I WILL GIVE THIS PEOPLE FAVOUR, so that they shall readily grant what the Israelites desire. See EXODUS 12:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether this was just or no, SEE POOLE ON "EXODUS 12:36".... [ Continue Reading ]