And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. Ver. 1. _Which thou brakest._] Not without a tincture of passionate infirmity, as some conceive. He that was the meekest... [ Continue Reading ]
And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. Ver. 2. _In the morning._] A sign of mercy. Psalms 90:14 _; Psalms 30:5_ _; _ Psa 5:3... [ Continue Reading ]
And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. Ver. 3. _Neither let any man be seen._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 19:12 _"_ Neither let the flocks.] Moses comes alone to God, and leaves the flocks. Jacob... [ Continue Reading ]
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. Ver. 4. _And he hewed two tables._] Moses hewed them. The first tables were hewn out of the sapphi... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. Ver. 5. _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's prayer. Exo 33:18-19... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Ver. 6. _The Lord, The Lord God. &c._] These glorious titles and attributes are those back parts of God. Exo 33:23 None can see more than these and li... [ Continue Reading ]
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation]. Ver. 7. _Forgiving iniquity and transgres... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. Ver. 8. _And Moses made haste._] It was time for him. The more any man sees of God, the lower he falls in his own eyes: as he that hath looked intently upon the sun, sees little when he looks down again.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. Ver. 9. _Let my lord, I pray thee._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 33:12 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with thee. Ver. 10. _Behold, I make... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Ver. 11. _Observe thou._] This is the condition of the covenant on man's part to be performed. With others God makes... [ Continue Reading ]
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: Ver. 12. _With the inhabitants._] They were devoted to destruction, as having filled the land from one end to another with their uncleanness. Ezr 9:11... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: Ver. 13. _Break their images._] The Popish historians have blurred and blasted those zealous emperors, Zeno and others, that were _Iconomachi_ and _Iconoclastai,_ as sacrilegious. Berne was the first town that, after... [ Continue Reading ]
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God: Ver. 14. _No other god._] In the Hebrew word _Acher,_ rendered _Other,_ there is a large R, to show the greatness of the sin of serving any other God. _Hebrew Text Note_... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; Ver. 15. _And one call thee._] Any one of the idolatrous rout, if he do but hold up his finger to thee, thou wilt... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Ver. 16. _And make thy sons._] Satan still works upon Adam by Eve. _Omnes haereses ex gyneeceis._ It is the guise of heretics to abuse the help of wome... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Ver. 17. _No molten gods._] As the golden calf was. Goodly gods that are molten! _Olim truncus eram._ _a_ a Horat.... [ Continue Reading ]
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. Ver. 18. _In the month Abib._] So called from the new fruits, or ears of corn, then first appearing. See E... [ Continue Reading ]
All that openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male]. Ver. 19, 20. See on Exodus 13:12,13 .... [ Continue Reading ]
But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. Ver. 20. _See Trapp on "_ Exo 34:19 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. Ver. 21. _In earing time and in harvest._] Though most busy times, you may not make bold with God.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Ver. 22. _And thou shalt observe._] See Exodus 23:16 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. Ver. 23. _Thrice in the year._] See Exodus 23:14; Exodus 23:17 .... [ Continue Reading ]
For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Ver. 24. _Neither shall any man desire._] A wonderful providence, since Judea was compassed about with such warlik... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. Ver. 25. _Thou shalt not offer._] See Exodus 23:18,19 ,... [ Continue Reading ]
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. Ver. 26. In his mother's milk.] See on Exodus 23:19 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. Ver. 27. _I have made a covenant._] We also have the covenant, the seals, ministers, &c. But, alas! are not these blessings amongst us as the ark was amongst th... [ Continue Reading ]
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. Ver. 28. _Forty days and forty nights._] Moses, Elias, and Christ - those three great fathers met glorious in mount Ta... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. Ver. 29. _The skin of his face shone._] God hereby assuring the people that he... [ Continue Reading ]
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. Ver. 30. _And they were afraid._] This was another manner of brightness and majesty than that which piercing gaze from the eyes of Augustus and Tamerlane; whose eyes s... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. Ver. 31. _And Moses called unto them._] Having first vailed his face, as in Exodus 34:33 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. Ver. 32. _And he gave them in commandment._] Rabbi Menahem telleth us, that the former ancients of Israel, at the reading of the book of the law, covered their f... [ Continue Reading ]
And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. Ver. 33. _He put a vail on his face._] And had more glory by his vail than by his face. How far are those spirits from this Christian modesty, which care only to be seen and wish only to dazzle others' eyes with admiration, no... [ Continue Reading ]
But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded. Ver. 34. _But when Moses went in._] Hypocrites on the contrary show their best to men, their worst to God; God see... [ Continue Reading ]