_And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their journeys according to their goings out._ Ver. 2. _And Moses wrote._] Moses was _primus in historia,_ as Martial saith of Salust.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. Ver. 4. _For the Egyptians buried._] As iron is very soft and malleable while in the fire, but soon after returns to its former hardness, so was it with these Egy... [ Continue Reading ]
And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. Ver. 29. _From Mitheah._] Which signifies sweetness. _ And pitched in Chasmonah._] Which signifies swiftness. We must also, when we have tasted of God's sweetness, use all possible swiftness in the ways of holiness; as Jacob, when he had seen v... [ Continue Reading ]
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the fifth month. Ver. 38. _And died there in the fortieth year._] “ _Nec te tua plurima Pentheu_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah._ Ver. 41. _Pitched in Zalmonah._] Of Zelem; signifying an image; so called because there the people, stung by fiery serpents, not by little dragons sprung out of their own bodies, as Fontunius Licetus _a_ will have it, looked up to the bra... [ Continue Reading ]
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: Ver. 52. _Destroy all the pictures._] Those Balaam's blocks, those excellent instruments of idolatry; such as was... [ Continue Reading ]
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Ver. 55. _Shall be pricks in your eyes._] The eye is... [ Continue Reading ]