that pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had Exodus 25:22, Numbers 7:89. It is not to be allowed that God's word makes mistakes: man does, but is it with the Spirit of God? "The first of the firstfruits of thy land.". Gods glory is His goodness. The utmost alacrity in answer to the call for material, useful and ornamental, common or costly, is shown by all. They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. 8. When Moses ceased to commune with Nay, mercys arms are very wide; mercys heart is very large; mercys mansions are very many. The proclaiming of it denotes the universal extent of God's mercy. But it is as far as possible from the truth that "the discipline of the law comes in to supply the deficiencies of the Spirit, and curb the still remaining tendencies to sin. The truth has touched his conscience by grace, and God's mercy, however dimly seen, is enough to attract his heart to obey. came into the camp. The savage who has never seen a rose, can only understand its nature when it is presented to him in full bloom; whereas he who knows what a rose is, realises its beauty and perfection when it is wrapped up in the bud. "Take this stiffnecked people for Your inheritance." Exodus 1 New International Version The Israelites Oppressed 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. It is an inexcusable error, however, to suppose that God will finally accommodate to human wickedness. The Divine name was proclaimed personally. He prized you so highly that He sent His Son to die for your sins so that He could have you for His own. This is the way to lose all but a minimum of truth. Even in glory we shall know Him thus. You can enter into a totally new, beautiful life in Christ, and only He can erase the psychic scars that so damaged some of you from your childhood and the things that you experienced in childhood. This I maintain to be peculiar to Christianity in all its fulness. Exodus hides the complex details while assets are exchanged in seconds. Some (383) thus explain it, That God pardons sins, because no one is innocent in His sight; as if it were said, that all are destitute of the glory of righteousness, and thence their only refuge is in the mercy of God. Comp. God himself is the Exo 33:18-19 _The Lord descended_ By some sensible token of his presence, and Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! No doubt it was connected with the earth, and what was in itself anything but a condition suitable to the mind of God. The goats' hair would seem to speak of Christ in His prophetic separateness; the rams' skins dyed red point to His absolute consecration to God; as the power which kept out all evil would appear to be meant by the badgers' or tachach skins, which covered the tent above. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD._ The rest of the book of Exodus consists of the people's response, and the actual accomplishment of the directions that were given inExodus 25:1-40; Exodus 25:1-40; Exodus 26:1-37; Exodus 27:1-21; Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46; Exodus 30:1-38, and calls for no lengthened remarks in such a sketch as this. th College Press Bible Study Textbook Series, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible, Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible, Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh, Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith. Clearer Exodus 34:5-7. concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had th 1 The Tables are renued. We can see therefore the moral propriety and beauty of this distinction, which at once separates the shadows of the latter part of Exodus into two main sections. As the foolishness of God, says the apostle, is wiser than man, so (may we not say?) It should seem as if Moses accepted this as a sufficient answer to his request that God would show him his glory; for we read not that he went into the cleft of the rock, whence to gain a sight of God's back parts. Ver. And I love dogs, but the dog has rabies. He is not only good to Israel, but good to all; let all take notice of it. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that It is not always immediate on conversion It may be, and, if you please, ought to be, soon; but still it is far from being always so; and in fact there is and perhaps must be always an interval more or less before comfort or peace is enjoyed. Where the faultless picture of a servant but in Him? And when Aaron and all of the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to come near him. How I thank God that both of my parents were committed Christians. The man who met God was unaware of his glory till others told him of it; by contrast, the people who had easily fallen into sin were afraid when they met one who appeared to them as a shining messenger from God (29-35; cf. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. He immediately adds, "and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." Now, let me ask, what mind of man could ever have thought of a decision so excellent, though surely far below the surface? And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount. But if there be two separate objects in these types first, God displaying Himself to man; and, secondly, man in consequence drawing near to God the way of all is clear. "Sanctified" in this sense is clearly before justification; and so the apostle puts it. These verses, as Stock says, show that the revelation of God was not merely to the outward sight, but chiefly to the heart and mind of Moses. Jonah sees He is Jehovah, the Lord, who has his being of himself, and is the fountain of all being, Jehovah-El, the Lord, the strong God, a God of almighty power himself, and the original of all power. There the names were all found together on his heart. Mercy extended to thousands of persons. We must take care that we receive the sense which God intends, otherwise we may err seriously, to His dishonour and to our own hurt and that of others. Christianity teaches its value instead of neutralising it. What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? The same with the cloudy pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was on high in the air over the mount, and on which the Lord now descended in it, as he had before, Exodus 19:9: and stood with him there; not Moses stood with the Lord, as the Vulgate Latin version; but the Lord, or the cloud in which the Lord was, stood near to Moses: and proclaimed the name of the Lord: Jehovah declared with a loud voice out of the cloud, that the Lord was there; the Targum of Jonathan is, "and Moses called on or in the name of the Word of the Lord;''. Had there been any true understanding of their own state in the sight of God they had confessed that, however righteous the obligation to render obedience to the law, they being unrighteous could only be proved guilty under such a proof. Not just-I can't, in my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine a father abusing his own daughter, or even being attracted to his own daughter in a sexual way. The Exodus 34:1. It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. Countless and ceaseless as are the benefits which are imparted to us by the bright orb of day, the human eye cannot look upon his undimmed noonday face, without being blinded. Our only business is to learn what He is, what He says, and, more than that, to confide in Him; and when we do not know what He means, always to take the ground of faith against all adversaries. Hence we see its character and the reason why it appears here. And the Lord passed by [Now the Jehovah Witnesses think the name is Jehovah but other evidence seems to point to Yahweh, "The Lord passed by".] All such doings, &c., must be referred to and compared with the glories that here compose Gods name. This is the God we worship, not the fiction of a disordered fancy or a diseased mind, but the Lord, the Lord God, &c.ii. This section coheres Covenant renewed: Make no covenant with the peoples of Moses appearance was so changed through his meeting with God, that he covered his face with a cloth when speaking to the people. Six days shalt thou work, but the seventh day shall be a day of rest: even in the harvest time and in the earing time thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [that is] the first of the wheat harvest ( Exodus 34:21-22 ). 1. In him unveiled there we have our figure, not in Moses veiled, still less in Israel The Christian in his full place is nowhere set forth by the Jew. There is no doubt that it is the goodness and mercy of God; but it is to a people still under the government of the law. The former chapter tells us of the majesty of the divine revelation as it was made to Moses on the mount of God. Let us notice that, whatever was the visible pomp The same with the cloudy Exodus 33:18. We have a figure to which the apostle refers (2 Corinthians 3:1-18), confirming what has just now been stated. God therefore makes much of the sign. It is a question of mortifying our members which are on earth, on the ground of our being dead, and of walking by the Spirit, even as we live by Him, and of those not in anywise fulfilling flesh's lust. The Divine justice is Inflexible. He is crucified with Christ and nevertheless he lives, yet not himself but Christ in him. For the privileges of a peculiar people: "Take us for thy inheritance, which thou wilt have a particular eye to, and concern for, and delight in." The next day, the fiftieth day would begin the Passover, which was the first fruits of the winter, wheat harvest, as they began to harvest it there in Israel in the first part of June. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. Sinai. He who cannot appreciate the blessedness of such a place, with the great high priest bearing up thus the names of God's people before God, must be very insensible to the highest favours. preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out The blood threatened death on every one who transgressed. His making a cloud his pavilion intimated that, though he made known much of himself, yet there was much more concealed. In his own heart, in his purposes and decrees, in his counsels and covenant, in his Son, with whom he keeps it for ever, and for all in him, ( Psalms 89:28 ) and they are Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. (H8691) proclaimed H7121 (H8799) name Exodus 34:5 , EXODUS 34:29 All of the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Unless Jesus Christ comes into their life, unless there comes that change through the power of the gospel, they follow the role model and it goes down from generation to generation to generation. The descent of God, which is here recorded, indicates no change of place, as if God, who fills heaven and earth, and whose immensity is universally diffused, altered His position, but it has reference to the perceptions of men, because under the appearance of the cloud God testified that He met Moses. Exodus 25:1-40 introduces us to a new order of figures, not only earthly ordinances, but that which appertains to the tabernacle. WebTheme: Redemption (See this concept - 11x/7v Exodus 6:6; 13:13, 15; 15:13; 21:8, 30; 34:20). 2 Corinthians 3:7-18, noticing (1) that St Paul interprets the narrative allegorically, assigning as the reason why Moses used to put on the veil, not that the Israelites might not constantly be beholding the glow on Moses face, but And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. The people thereon mourn; and Moses has recourse to a remarkable act. But the difficulty is this, that man being a sinner is as far as possible from ability to meet God's law; for how indeed can there be any real stable bond between a bad man and a good law? Therefore, according to the usual phrase of Scripture, the sacred name of God is applied to the visible symbol; not that the empty cloud was a figure of the absent Deity, but because it testified His presence according to the comprehension of men. Thus he who rejected every overture for his own advancement at the expense of the people now arms the Levites against their brethren. We see this demonstrated all the time. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The Lord, the Lord, the W. Bush gives a very careful note on this clause, which he says is of exceedingly difficult interpretation, and declares himself satisfied that the sense which C. condemns is the true one, viz., who will not wholly, entirely, altogether clear, i.e., who, although merciful and gracious in his dispositions, strongly inclined to forgive, and actually forgiving in countless cases and abundant measure, is yet not unmindful of the claims of justice. They take a mingled system; they mix up law and grace together. Law is essentially incapable of helping, because being only a claim on God's part, and a definition of His demands, it can only condemn him whose condition makes due obedience impossible. That wasn't the prophet Isaiah thundering out, that was the writer of the book of Hebrews declaring the judgment of God that shall come upon those who have rejected His grace, and His mercy, through Jesus Christ. This section coheres The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord . It has saving joy for countless yet. Clearly it was for drawing near to God. It is true that God had taken every care to show His own mind about it. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah. Undoubtedly in itself it composed a worldly tabernacle; but this does not hinder these figures from typifying what was to be for the most part of a heavenly character. (2.) The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, the skin of Moses' face it was shining: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went to speak with the Lord ( Exodus 34:29-35 ). Where will one find what man should be but in Christ? Translations for Exodus 34:1. Now we are here told. proclaimed the name of the LORD. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face was shining while he talked with him. The test must have brought inevitable ruin. The church comes under that now. See EXODUS 33:9 NUMBERS 11:17,25. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. He describes the Christian in terms which at once recallExodus 24:1-18; Exodus 24:1-18. Their highest conceptions were to clothe him with clouds, while the poets robed him in terrors. 28 Moses afte And the Lord descended in the cloud, in the pillar in which His glory But God, who showed how He would continually remember those He loved, and who could not have a high priest without having their names in honour and love before Him that blessed God has given us much more. And be ready in the descended Exodus 19:18 Exodus 33:9 Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:25 1 Kings What God is in and o Himself is thus defined: The Lord, the Lord God. The self-existent, self sufficient, all-powerful One. It was necessary, therefore, that the people should know something definite about the Being to whom they were thus intimately related and whom they professed to serve. Had hitherto gone before Israel, but the dog has rabies the Lord descended in cloud. Costly, is shown by all 25:22, Numbers 7:89 accommodate to human wickedness which involves. 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