You know, that would be such a glorious thing if you had a religious nation.

Top 3 Commentaries Pastoral Devotional Enns, Peter.

The Divine name was proclaimed condescendingly.

When He says they were washed, He is referring to the water of the word used by the Spirit of God to deal with man.

"In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah."

The more we see of God's goodness the more ashamed we should be of our own sins, and the more earnest for an interest in it. Thus 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 corresponds with the ark rather than the brazen altar.

The blood threatened death on every one who transgressed.

[God passed by and declared His name, declared His glory. The legal ordinances and institutes were but shadows; still they were types distinctly constituted; and we should learn by them all.

The angels ever, Draw strength from gazing on its glance,Though none its meaning fathom may;The Words unwithered countenanceIs bright as at Mount Sinais day., Sun-Splendours!

He could not look upon the face of God; but when the Lord had passed by then he could behold and delight in the shaded vision of Jehovahs back parts.

Keeping mercy for thousands.

We have a nature which answers morally to God whom we imitate as well as obey in light and love, in holy and righteous ways, in mercy, truthfulness, and humility.

Scholars of all shades of belief have extolled and praised the revelation here concerning the nature, or attributes, of God Himself.

Tools Exo 34:8 In the candlestick another truth comes before us.

After that, he besought a month; then a year.

Revelation alone emblazons God in the full circle of His perfections. This is the peculiarity. But inasmuch as Christ differed from Moses, as grace differs from law; as that which suits God the Father known in heaven, though manifesting Himself upon earth, differs from a process of mere dealing with the first man according to righteous claim; so it is with the Christian man: while faithful to Christ, as he knows Him, he will never do anything which the law could possibly condemn.

He will reign as the great King King of kings and Lord of lords, but still as King.

But looking onward to the day of glory that is coming, when the Lord will be publicly manifested, and we manifested with Him, changed into His glorious likeness, it might have been thought that surely His service will cease then.

But if I look at the passage where it is said, "He made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him," it is evident that we are brought into the very presence of God.

He describes the Christian in terms which at once recallExodus 24:1-18; Exodus 24:1-18. "It is worth noting that the stipulations are enfolded within matching frames that stress the exclusivity of Yahweh ( Exodus 20:22-23 Exodus 23:24-25 Exodus 20:24 Exodus 23:14-17 Exodus 23:20 ), and a proper protocol and ritual by which He may be approached by His servant people ( Exodus

Not an inference from the phenomena of nature.

The Jew had it after this outward sort, all being comparatively external in Israel.

Much of what is boastfully called natural theology, and the revelation of God in the universe, are but facts read into nature from the Bible and by Bible men. It simply proves that he who expounds unwittingly sets aside the gospel.

behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.

He ordered that there should be the Urim and the Thummim connected with the high priest's breastplate; that is the means of divine guidance for the people. WebMatthew Henry Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 30:1-10. Here at least the people are at their work earnestly at work in dishonouring God striking at the very foundation of His truth and honour to their own shame and ruin.

"The first of the firstfruits of thy land.". Moses made haste, and he bowed his head towards the earth, and he worshipped. I would have problems with any god that couldn't work miracles. Revelation alone emblazons God in the full circle of His perfections. The coat of fine linen embroidered means personal righteousness in ways, set off with every beauty of grace. The words, therefore, may be properly paraphrased thus: Although God is pitiful and even ready to pardon, yet He does not therefore spare the despisers, but is a severe avenger of their impiety.

1 (1984):3952 and Phillips, A Fresh Look at the Sinai Pericope, Part 2, VT 34, no. That is the bearing of it all. By the law he died to the law that he might live to God.

Both unite in Christ and His atoning death.

The Divine justice is Inflexible. on high), that they also might be sanctified by the truth." 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.

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.

His relationship is that of a son, not merely of one adopted into that place with no more reality than he obtains in human things. This was the first full revelation, the last is like unto it. God is love, and they are enough for faith and hope and work Notice, 1.

Web34 The Lord said to Moses, Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

(2.) It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. Then trust that what He is now doing is for your good.iii. ", See the ground Moses took the unqualified promises of God's mercy, the grace assured to the fathers Impossible for Jehovah to set aside such a plea Nevertheless Moses comes down with the two tables in his hand, the work of God. 2. Exodus 39:38-43) the sacrifice of the daily lambs which presented the continual acceptance of the people of God, with the renewed and most express assurance of His dwelling among them.

That's how high God prizes you. i. Apologetically. The doors stand open. Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. That is so absolutely sick I can't even think of it. That they become the innocent victims of their parents' folly.

W. Burn. Pagan artists depicted Jupiter with thunder in his right hand, and an eagle at his feet. And so on this occasion to the meek and wistful Moses preaching the Gospel, Jehovah expanded that one word of love into the name: The Lord God, merciful and gracious, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin., The sun has lost his rage; his downward orbShoots nothing more but animating warmthAnd vital lustre; that, with various ray,Lights up the clouds, those beauteous robes of heaven., (1.) Is that the way in which Christ was most glorified?

It was necessarily so with the high priest taken from among men, after the witness already given to Christ's exceptional place. Moses was near enough to God in the tabernacle, outside the camp, to get a better view of His grace than he ever enjoyed before. It is true that God had taken every care to show His own mind about it.

Calvin Soc. He is gracious.

The word continent requires sentence after sentence of explanation to the child-mind; but when the child has become the youthful student, three words suffice to explain the same. Very simple are the words and expressions; but how detailed.

WebCalvin's Commentary on the Bible 5.And the Lord descended in the cloud It is by no means to be doubted but that the cloud received Moses into it in the sight of the people, so that,

Every Christian has a nature that is intrinsically divine, as we are told in 2 Peter 1:1-21. But Moses had never had a full and wonderful view of the Mercy and Truth therein; therefore he here obtains a glimpse into the Divine treasury, with its boundless, inexhaustible stores of mercymercy ready to meet and satisfy the demands of justice. And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; and he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.

How God proclaimed his name (Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7): he did it in transitu--as he passed by him.

Accordingly we may regard the law as a whole, consisting not only of moral claims but of national institutes, ordinances, statutes, and judgment) under which Israel were put. WebExodus 34:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible MOSES ALLOWED TO SEE GODS GLORY.

He who has wrought expiation for our sins is our life, and at the same time He is the object whom God has revealed to our faith. They see actually two Gods, the God of the Old Testament, the God of the New.But in the Old Testament you will find very much concerning the character of God as far as His graciousness, as far as His mercy.

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They greatly err who in this sense quote "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin," and stop there. From the time that man fell, He presented grace as the only hope for a sinner. the seeming disorder of God is incomparably more orderly than man's best order. But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. This was delivered for the Jewish nation and the world.

His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it.

Now that's asking God for an awful lot. Thus, though physically it is an impossibility, we are dealing with a God of miraculous power and God who can set aside certain laws of nature.Now I don't recommend that you try and go forty days and forty nights without water or food. To the sinner. As you see these little gods that are representations, or were representations to the people of Baal, you'll see that Baal's arms are always folded, and the hands in an upright position like this.

(2.) Without it the guilty people never could have been spared, but must have perished root and branch, as it was in consequence of this change that a new generation of the people of Israel entered into the land at all.

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. Fixed views of God are reserved for the future state; the best we have in this world are transient. Thus it is evident that, no matter what the subject may be, the Sabbath has always a place assigned to it.

For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God"( Hebrews 10:27-29 , Hebrews 10:31 ). Whatever be the work of God, His rest remains for His people. Now that's the part that I have, "Here God, You can have me for Your inheritance."

God expounds eleven attributes: YHWH, El, the Merciful One, the Gracious One, the Longsuffering One, the Mighty One, the Kind and Loving One, the True One, the One who Preserves Kindness, the Forgiving One, and the Chastising One.

Then we have the veil and screen.

Now we are here told.

(2.) O God, how beautiful the thought,How merciful the blessd decree,That grace can eer be found when sought,And naught shut out the soul from Thee!, Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the ten commandments ( Exodus 34:26-28 ). Exodus.

And the Holy Ghost completes this wonderful circle of divine intimacy.

The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. revelation that "God is love."

Chapter 34.

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."

But what immediately follows must necessarily be referred to God, when He passed by, to cry out and to dignify Himself with His true titles.

A man hitherto has been altogether indifferent to the word of God. He considers that distinct meanings to be attached to the materials, colours, etc., can have no solid foundation, and are " here out of place"! This might have been done to soothe the peoples fear. It was no deduction of philosophy, no imposition of priestcraft, but the revelation of the Lord (Job 11:7; 1 Corinthians 1:21).

But that Moses should stand in a cleft of a rock and the glory of the Lord would pass by, and after the Lord had passed by, This I maintain to be peculiar to Christianity in all its fulness. Old Testament Individual Books. His relationship was with them as they then were, redeemed from Egypt by His power and brought to Himself indeed, but only after an outward sort, neither born of God, nor justified. 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.

He would obey like Jesus, not under compulsion like a Jew, and is sprinkled with His blood in remission for his sins, instead of having the blood sprinkled on him as a menace of death in case of disobeying the law.

They would place these in the fire and heat them until they became- until the iron became red hot. The name of the God of the Jews, who is also the God of the Christians, is The Lord God, merciful and gracious., Thou lookest forth at morning; flying wide. This is a branch of God's goodness which the wickedness of sinners gives occasion for; that of Israel had done so: they had tried his patience, and experienced it.

Number one, why the veil over the face of Moses? ], Moses response to Gods gracious revelation was submission and worship (Exodus 34:8). We should remember that we are heavenly now (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) as truly as we ever shall be.

It is the putting the believer into an entirely new place before God, which is a different thought from his receiving a new nature.

Mercy entailed upon thousands of generations, even those upon whom the ends of the world have come; nay, the line of it is drawn parallel with that of eternity itself. Moses sees them so stiff-necked that, for his part, he has neither patience nor power enough to deal with them.

Children become the innocent victims because their parents aren't able to soften their hearts before God and each other enough to make the marriage work.

A certain reserve becomes requisite to majesty; whereas such considerations disappear in the nearness of relationship He is pleased to enter into with us.

1. The Hebrew grammar of these verses designates that Moses covenant mediating role was to be an ongoing, continual reality in the life of the people. God is enraged and tells Moses to get down there on the double (32:7) because your people (that is, Moses people) have acted perversely.

All the previous dealings of God with Israel had been successive revelations of His attributes, embraced in the name JEHOVAH.

WebSee also Exodus 34:7 in other biblical comments: Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary This was the second revelation of the name of the God of Israel to Moses.

What a motive for parents! True, God is revealed there (Romans 1:20); but the key is wanted to decipher the hieroglyphics, and that key is the Scriptures which are given by inspiration of God..

But in this chapter, and indeed in the next still more, the people entreat that God's voice should not speak to them any more. [This is a feast of Passover.]

Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. But sincerity will not serve in lieu of His word; and our own thoughts and desires can never be trusted as a standard of principle or of practice.

This is all the more striking too, because even after the redemption of the people from Egypt there are grievous faults, unbelief, complaints, and murmurs; nevertheless, not a blow, not a single answer on God's part save in tender mercy towards a poor and failing people. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity.

I do not mean man as man, but that there was no bar to man.

The truth has touched his conscience by grace, and God's mercy, however dimly seen, is enough to attract his heart to obey.

Israel are to approve themselves as holy men to God.

God's promises are intended, not to supersede, but to direct and encourage, prayer.

2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. WebDer Auszug aus gypten oder Exodus (lat. In the brazen altar it is the same side of truth, but there is this characteristic difference.

So three times a year they were to appear before God, the God of Israel.

After this follow the general institutions of the law, which mainly insist on retribution. For, (1.)

This is the new division brought in and what might seem at first sight a notable irregularity, as has been observed before, is simply an effect of the perfect arrangement of God's mind.

WebExodus 34:5-7 In Exodus 33:18, Moses requests God to display His glory. Secondly, when the blood of the victims was shed, it was sprinkled on the book as well as on the people (verses 7, 8).

2. He is not only good to Israel, but good to all; let all take notice of it.

But the written word of God is the sole instrumental means and the revelation of it all.

(2.) Certain things which happened to Israel may be types for the Christian, but nothing more.

Along with them there is the greatest possible care for the maintenance of one true God an immense principle. And so it always is No doubt there was large and rich blessing and of the most unexpected kind when God sent down the Holy Spirit here below, and His church was first seen.

On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. If I may venture on such an expression without irreverence, it is the introducing us into the family circle of the heavens the Father made known in the Son by the Holy Ghost.

This bespeaks both freeness and kindness; it intimates not only that he has a compassion to his creatures, but a complacency in them and in doing good to them, and this of his own good-will, and not for the sake of any thing in them.

Perhaps he has not peace at once, but at any rate he is thoroughly arrested; he desires earnestly to know the gospel from the very first.

"* Such was no doubt the doctrine of those whom the apostle censures as wishing to be law-teachers, understanding neither what things they say nor whereof they stoutly affirm.