EXODUS CHAPTER 33 God refuseth to go with the people as formerly, EXODUS 33:1. The people mourn, EXODUS 33:4. God's command what to say to the children of Israel, EXODUS 33:5. They mourn, and lay by their ornaments, EXODUS 33:6. Moses pitcheth the tabernacle without the camp, EXODUS 33:7; and going... [ Continue Reading ]
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I WILL NOT GO UP IN THE MIDST OF THEE by my own special and gracious presence, as hitherto I have done, but I will depart from thee. In pursuance hereof God removes his tabernacle without the camp, EXODUS 33:7. I will only make good my promise to thy fathers, and send an angel to accomplish it, but... [ Continue Reading ]
Their precious garments or jewels, which the women reserved, as we saw, EXODUS 33:3. This was a visible sign and profession of their inward humiliation and repentance for their sin, and of their deep sense of God's displeasure.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL COME UP INTO THE MIDST OF THEE, to wit, in anger; not in favour, EXODUS 33:3, where the words are the same, but the sense differing, AND CONSUME THEE. OBJECT. But God had promised he would not do so, EXODUS 33:3. ANSW. That was signified to Moses, not to the people, to whom the threatening wa... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE TABERNACLE was a tent set up by Moses for the people to meet in for sacrifice and seeking of God, and other parts of God's worship, until the great tabernacle should be finished; for such a place was necessary, or highly expedient for that use, and therefore it is not probable they would be with... [ Continue Reading ]
Testifying their grief for God's departure, their respect to Moses, whom they had lately despised, their earnest desire of his intercession for them, their longing for God's favour, and their humble expectation of a gracious return from God by the hands of Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whereby God testified his approbation of Moses, and of that which Moses had done, which might seem to some severe and cruel.... [ Continue Reading ]
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FACE TO FACE, or, _mouth to mouth_, as NUMBERS 12:8. Not that God hath face or mouth, or that Moses could behold it, which is denied, EXODUS 33:20. But the sense is, he spake with him freely and familiarly, and immediately, not by an angel in a dream or vision, as he did to other prophets. See DEUTE... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM THOU WILT SEND WITH ME, i.e. what angel it is, whether it be a created angel, for then I profess I am unsatisfied with him, EXODUS 33:15; or the same uncreated Angel Christ, who hath hitherto accompanied us, and then I am content. But I am at a great loss by thy withdrawing thy cloudy pillar fr... [ Continue Reading ]
SHOW ME NOW THY WAY; the course and manner of thy dealings with men, and particularly thy purpose and will concerning me and thy people, and the method which thou wilt choose for the fulfilling of thy promise, and the course which thou wouldst have me take, and the way by which I shall conduct thy p... [ Continue Reading ]
MY PRESENCE, Heb. _my face_, i.e. I myself, by comparing this with 2 SAMUEL 17:11. The Angel of my presence, ISAIAH 63:9; the pledge of my presence, the cloudy pillar; and I will not turn thee over to an angel, as I threatened, EXODUS 34:2. See DEUTERONOMY 4:34. I WILL GIVE THEE REST; not only rest... [ Continue Reading ]
Let us rather live and die in the wilderness with thy presence and favour, than go into Canaan without it; for even that promise of rest I value not without thy presence. So he echoes back God's words to himself, and turns God's promise into a prayer.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREIN SHALL IT BE KNOWN HERE ? by what other token shall other nations and after-ages know? SO SHALL WE BE SEPARATED, i.e. distinguished by thy peculiar kindness and privileges afforded to us. Or, BE MADE WONDERFUL, OR EMINENT, OR GLORIOUS ABOVE ALL OTHER PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
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i.e. Thy glorious majesty, the brightness of thy countenance, some such manifestation of thyself as becomes thy excellency, and such as shall be seen in the other life; or that glorious shape which, together with a human voice, thou hast now assumed. But for the essence of God, as that was and is an... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL MY GOODNESS, or, _my beauty_; for so that Hebrew word is sometimes used, GENESIS 6:2 1 SAMUEL 9:2; or _my excellency_, or _my glory_, as appears from EXODUS 33:22, which was the thing Moses desired to see; and the difference between his request and God's answer doth not lie IN GLORY AND GOODNESS... [ Continue Reading ]
MY FACE; either, 1. My essence. But that no man can see, neither in this life, nor in the next. Or rather, 2. My glorious presence. This may note either, 1. God's purpose that that blissful vision of God in glory shall be given to no man here, but is reserved for the future life. Or rather, 2. T... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS A PLACE BY ME, in this mountain where my residence and glorious presence now is, and in that part of it whence my voice now cometh to thine ears.... [ Continue Reading ]
That thou mayst not be undone by thy own desires, nor swallowed up with the sight of my glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY BACK PARTS, i.e. imperfectly and in part, as when we see only a man's back parts, and not his face. Thou shalt see a shadow or obscure delineation of my glory, as much as thou canst bear, though not as much as thou dost desire.... [ Continue Reading ]