PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED)
The rebellions and provocations of the wilderness are recalled, to
show the people that it is not of their own merit that they are to
inherit the promises, nor by their own strength that they are to
dispossess the inhabitants of Canaan, but by the grace and power... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO IN HOREB] Even at Horeb, in view of those awe-inspiring tokens of
the divine majesty, and at the very time when the Law was being
promulgated, the people corrupted themselves: see Exodus 32 and notes.... [ Continue Reading ]
I NEITHER DID EAT BREAD NOR DRINK WATER] In Exodus 34:28 this fact is
recorded in connexion with the second writing of the Law.... [ Continue Reading ]
I FELL DOWN] i.e. in intercession: see on Numbers 16:4. The words AS
AT THE FIRST refer probably to the intercession on the mount spoken of
in Exodus 32:11 : cp. Exodus 32:31.
22-24, giving other instances of the people's rebellion, seem to be a
parenthesis. Deuteronomy 9:25 takes up the thread of... [ Continue Reading ]