CONTENTS This is a most interesting Chapter, but no less distressing to read. We have therein related to us, that God, by his divine foreknowledge, having seen, that in consequence of Moses being with him longer in the Mount than the people below in the camp expected, they fell away to idolatry: th... [ Continue Reading ]
Did Aaron consent to their impious proposal through fear? Proverbs 29:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
What an awful account! Psalms 106:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare this account with what is said, Exodus 24:7. then read that scripture, which can never be too often read, Jeremiah 17:9. Observe how the Psalmist remarks this sin, being so highly aggravated, in that it was done in Horeb, that memorable spot, where the people had such evidences of the divine... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe God's knowledge. Proverbs 15:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
James 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 9:13. There is somewhat very interesting if spiritually considered, in this reasoning of Jehovah with Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
If we lose sight of Moses in this place, in order to behold him whom Moses typified, even the Lord Jesus Christ, in his glorious character of intercessor, this passage is uncommonly beautiful. Isaiah 59:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psa_106:23; Psa_106:45.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 12:2. Those who are much in communion with God will, on their return to the world, feel somewhat like this, from not being conversant with such language.... [ Continue Reading ]
This zeal of Moses is not reproved, see Deuteronomy 9:17. Reader! remember his zeal, John 2:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Perhaps this was done to convince the children of Israel, how contemptible must be such gods which could be so reduced to nothing. 1 Corinthians 8:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
So great a sin. It appears that, but for the intercession of Moses, Aaron would have been cut off for it, see Deuteronomy 9:20. But reader! remember in all this Moses only typified Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe how all sinners endeavor to put off their sins on others; see Genesis 3:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 3:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 2:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 13:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
The approbation of this deed, in the house of Levi, Moses records in the close of his life. Deuteronomy 33:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 58:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, Moses doth not now presume to say that they are the Lord's people, but he calls them this people. Observe how he pleads for great mercy, because of great transgression. David uses the same argument in after ages. Psalms 25:11. But was not Moses in all this a type of the Lord Jesus?... [ Continue Reading ]
How striking is the type here; only, indeed, with this difference, that Moses did but offer to die, whereas the Lord Jesus did actually die, the just for the unjust, to bring sinners to God. See those sweet scriptures, Daniel 9:26; Isaiah 53:8; John 10:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
And was not this in reality done, when, by the Lord Jesus assuming our nature, taking upon him our guilt, and becoming our surety, he gave himself a ransom for all? See 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
I venture to believe that this angel was not the Almighty angel of the covenant, but only some ordinary servant in token of God's displeasure. See Exodus 33:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 89:30; Acts 7:41 REFLECTIONS In perusing this account of Israel's shameful apostacy from the Lord God of their salvation, alter the many mercies which they had received, both in their deliverance from Egypt, and especially the tokens of his divine presence on Mount Sinai, what do we read in... [ Continue Reading ]