Exo. 33:14, 15. "And he said, My presence shall go with thee. And he said, if thy presence go not with us, carry us not up hence." Hence probably the heathen Pan and Faunus, the god of shepherds - the shepherds were the Israelites that were by the Egyptians called the shepherds, because a shepherd w... [ Continue Reading ]
Exo. 33:18, 19. "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." Moses, from his finding h... [ Continue Reading ]
Exo. 33:18-23. Moses, when he beseeches God to show him his glory, seems to have respect to a visible glory; something to be seen with his bodily eyes, yet not exclusive of an inward sweet sense of those glorious perfections, of which the external glory by which God manifests himself is a semblance,... [ Continue Reading ]