CONTENTS This Chapter contains the record of that memorable event to which all the subsequent acts of the Church have reference; the giving of the Law upon Mount Sinai, amidst the glorious manifestation of the Divine Presence. Israel, being now arrived at the holy mount, after a journey of between... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! have you left Rephidim, the place of murmuring? And are you come to the Mount of God? If so, how sweet will you read that scripture of the Apostle's, compared with this of Moses! Hebrews 12:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 7:32. Observe how often Moses went up into the Mount, and returned to the people; nine or ten times in this chapter!... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 33:11; Isaiah 40:31. Eagles are said not only to feed and protect their young, but to teach them to fly. And it is said that while other birds carry their young with their claws, eagles bear them on their wings. So that nothing from beneath can hurt the young, but the old bird must first... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 32:9. See under the gospel state more of the same precious tokens. 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 1:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! keep in view in all this, him whom Moses represented, and for whom he acted as Mediator. Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 8:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Again and again, remember in all this Him whom Moses typified. Oh! how sweet to behold Jesus in his goings and returns, in this unceasing character of his priestly office. Hebrews 7:26; Revelation 19:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Chronicles 6:1. So again, David, Psalms 18:11. While we behold with awe and reverence this appearance of God, and his speaking with Moses in the hearing of the people, let the Reader take the wing of meditation, and flee to the river Jordan, and see, and hear, the milder dispensation which Jehovah... [ Continue Reading ]
To sanctify, means in this place to set apart. Job did so concerning his sons. Job 1:5. Washing the clothes, signifying by an outward sign, somewhat intended of an inward effect. Reader! may you and I have that washing spoken of, Titus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is somewhat particularly striking in the appointment of the third day. Genesis 22:4; Leviticus 7:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
How awful must it be to rush unthinkingly into God's presence, when bounds are so marked to keep back. Hebrews 12:29. How precious the privilege of a Mediator! Hebrews 10:19. How beautiful doth the Apostle draw the comparison between the state of the church of old, and believers now. Hebrews 12:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 33:2. The trumpet perhaps was by the ministry of angels. Revelation 8:6. Hence the law is spoken of as given by the disposition of angels. Acts 7:53.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Exodus 19:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Samuel 21:3; 1 Samuel 21:3, compared with 1 Corinthians 7:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here opens that solemn event, to which the Church, in after ages, frequently refers; of Israel's hearing the voice of the Lord speaking to them. Deuteronomy 4:33. If we spiritualize this passage, may we not compare the thunders and lightnings to those alarms and terrors which beset the soul, when th... [ Continue Reading ]
The law places the sinner at the nether part indeed, awfully alarmed: and is, as the apostle speaks, the ministration of death, 2 Corinthians 3:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judges 5:5; Habakkuk 3:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle says, that Moses trembled also: Hebrews 12:21. The best and holiest of men need the same salvation. How precious here again is the Lord Jesus, in his mediatorial character! 1 Timothy 2:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is spoken after the manner of men; but it means, that there were the manifested signs of the divine presence. Numbers 12:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Samuel 6:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Samuel 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is there not a lesson here, of living by faith, and not by sight? Deuteronomy 29:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Pause, my soul, over the perusal of this Chapter, and while duly meditating the vast and infinite importance of God's righteous law, delivered with such awful solemnity on Mount Sinai; learn here from to contemplate with increasing joy and thankfulness, that precious, blessed, holy, law-... [ Continue Reading ]