Exo. 3:2, 3. "And the angel of the Lord appeared," etc. That is, Christ - who is often so called - appeared, etc. This bush represents - (1.) The human nature of Christ, whose name is "the branch." This bush well represented the human nature of Christ, because it was the growth of the earth. Though... [ Continue Reading ]
Exo. 3:3. "Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." The great sight that Moses here said he would turn aside to see, and that he did turn aside to see as he said, as we have an account in next verse, was not that the bush was not burnt, for this Moses... [ Continue Reading ]
Exo. 3:13. "And they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?" They would be the more apt to inquire this, because they had now been so long in Egypt, where they had served other gods, that they had in a great measure forgotten the God of their fathers. Had it not been for God'... [ Continue Reading ]
Exo. 3:14. "I am that I am," etc. Some of the heathen philosophers seem to have derived notions that they had of the Deity from hence. Plato and Pythagoras make the great object of philosophy to be Τὸ Ον, _that which is;_ Τὸ ὂντως Ον, _that which truly is_; and also Τὸ αὔτο Ον, _being itself_. The... [ Continue Reading ]
Exo. 3:18. "And you shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God." That is, inform Pharaoh that your God that hath met with you, has instructed you to ask this... [ Continue Reading ]