exodus 34:5 7 commentary

The nature also of His goodness and clemency is specified, viz., that He is not only placable, and ready, and disposed, to pardon, but that He patiently waits for those who have sinned, and invites them to repentance by His long-suffering. "Thou shalt make thee no molten images.". prophets returned to these words again and again. * Dr. P. Fairbairn's Typology, ii. It is not merely as having the word that reveals heaven; but we know it from Him who comes from heaven and is above all, and testifies what He has seen and heard; we know it through the Holy Ghost who has come down from it, and hence should know it better than the earth, and the things of the world which ensnare the flesh. Even then, being still unable, he declined the task, declaring that the more he thought of God, the less was he able to describe Him.(2.) So that they would not see the fading away of the old covenant, his face was veiled.But Paul goes on to say, "But even today their faces are still veiled when it comes to the word of God." They were a people in the flesh. They lost sight of His promises to the fathers. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. Let us not forget it. (1-4) II. Thus God has given the order of extermination to protect His own innocent children. Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. And so surely tremendous declarations of God's grace, God's mercy, God's forgiveness, God's goodness, God's truth. After the call to the people to bring their offerings, we find the use to which they were to be applied First and foremost stands the centre of Levitical worship the ark. "Go in and utterly wipe them out." The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ It is not a merely legal way of escaping the dreadful doom that he sees is the just portion of those that despise God. Secondly, when the blood of the victims was shed, it was sprinkled on the book as well as on the people (verses 7, 8). WebExodus 34:5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. All of the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Some seem on the very verge of denying it altogether, in their one-sided zeal for the grace of God; others who stand stoutly and so far well for the responsibility of man misuse this truth so as apparently to swamp God's grace. THE FULFILMENT BY GOD OF HIS PROMISE TO MOSES. _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ This sacred glimpse of God's loving mercy lies behind the N.T. The priesthood undeniably consisted of that class of persons who had the privilege and duty of going into the sanctuary on behalf of the people. The grace of God applies the blood of Christ in a totally different way; and this is what is referred to in1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:2. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never God, the cloud removed from the door of the Tent of Meeting, Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. proclaimed the name of Yah Exodus 34:5 , EXODUS 34:29 Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). 3. TRANSLATION No sooner had Moses got to the top of the mount than God gave him the meeting (Exodus 34:5; Exodus 34:5): The Lord descended, by some sensible token of his presence, and manifestation of his glory. This is here called "sanctification of the Spirit." He sternly warned his people against copying, or even tolerating, heathen religious practices in their new land. Additional reminders concerned requirements for sacrifices and firstfruits (25-26; see 23:18-19).God then made a declaration that the covenant Israel had broken was now re-established. The Exodus is the central event of the Old CHAPTER XXXIV.THE VISION OF GOD.Exodus 34:1-35It was when God had most graciously assured Moses 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. He is not only good to Israel, but good to all; let all take notice of it. As people are arguing about God, God is Ay, God is indeed full of mercys flowers and fruits. CALLED UPON _the name of_ JEHOVAH] i.e. "As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly." God ordering their extermination; they're gonna die anyhow, they're gonna destroy themselves. Exodus 34:5 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. Thus 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 corresponds with the ark rather than the brazen altar. Scholars have identified three literary traditions in Exodus, designated by the letters J, E, and P. All the previous For the first time the face of Moses shines after communications with God. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity. And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth; keeping lovingkindness 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 the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. We see this demonstrated all the time. If the Spirit of God has thus wrought in him, he is separated to God from what he was. True or no, the speculation illustrates our thought. Now we know what these mean. 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. pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. You can't go forty days and forty nights without food or water." manifestation of his glory. As Christ is the true and perfect image of God, so is He the expression of all that is good and holy in man. "Sanctified" in this sense is clearly before justification; and so the apostle puts it. Thou shalt make thee no molten images ( Exodus 34:15-17 ). Unbelievers fight shy of it, and take certain doings or commands wrested from their context, and without examination as to the reason why. Exodus provides an online help desk and 24/7 customer support to get your questions answered, fast. And I love dogs, but the dog has rabies. Now, let me ask, what mind of man could ever have thought of a decision so excellent, though surely far below the surface? (380) A.V., Will by no means clear; S. M. and C., Not making (the guilty) innocent; or, in C.s own comment, He will not with cleansing cleanse; but C. presently acknowledges that it might be taken to mean, He will not utterly cut off, inasmuch as the verb is sometimes used for to blot out, to destroy, to exterminate; to which class of meanings more than one lexicographer has assigned its use in this text. So the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and in all the people among whom thou [shalt, among whom thou] art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is an awesome [The word terrible is an old English word, should be translated "awesome"] thing that I will do with thee. The Spirit given to the Christian is of power, love, and a sound mind. 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. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. He uses all the personal confidence that God had in him on behalf of the people. It is the display of God in both cases the one in the presence of God where He manifests Himself; the other in dealing with man and his wants in this world. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin -; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.". The legal ordinances and institutes were but shadows; still they were types distinctly constituted; and we should learn by them all. Hence we see its character and the reason why it appears here. "And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou has spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by thy name." Forgiveness is for the repentant. Then follows the ritual required in the act of consecrating Aaron and his sons. This shows the essential difference between law and grace, which last means God giving in Christ all that man really needs for His own glory. The knowledge of Israel in the millennium will be genuine, for they shall be all taught of God. Lest, however, this indulgence should be perverted into a license for sin, it is afterwards added, by way of correction, with (380) cleansing He will not cleanse, which, with the Chaldee interpreter and others, I understand as applying to His severe judgment against the reprobate and obstinate; for I do not like their opinion who say that, although God indeed pardons sins, yet He still moderately chastises those who have sinned; since this is a poor conjecture, that punishment is required though the guilt is remitted; and besides, it is altogether untrue, inasmuch as it is manifest, from experience that God passes over many sins without punishment. We have a figure to which the apostle refers (2 Corinthians 3:1-18), confirming what has just now been stated. Mercy extended to thousands of persons. There indeed is the truth. He is the servant of His own choice for ever. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. p. 190. Slow to anger, Bears long, even when the wrongs of His saints call for His vengeance (Luke 18:7). That's how high God prizes you. The holiness of God is as a consuming fire to the guilty conscience; but within this light inaccessiblewithin this refulgent atmosphere of truth and sanctity, is a glory more intimate and essential still, the inmost perfection and divinest beauty of the Godhead. That is, we are children as having God's own nature. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, [Verse nineteen] All that openeth the matrix is mine; [So the first born of everything belongs to God.] Longsuffering, not good by spasm or effort, but patient and unwearied. Let us not then have either hard thoughts of God or hard hearts towards our brethren. Jehovah loves to surrender to Moses, as of old to Jacob with far feebler forces. I do not mean man as man, but that there was no bar to man. (3.) Without life it is impossible for one to produce that which is according to God; and without a worthy object, nay without a divine object presented, there can be nothing to draw out divine affections. Hence therefore, no sooner does God propose to them that they should obey His law as the condition of their blessing at His hands, than they at once accept the terms: "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine." He asked to see His glory. Moses made haste, and he bowed his head towards the earth, and he worshipped. Because it was hard to look at his shining face? (Exodus 34:10) Moses had prayed Him as Adonai to "go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our sin, and take us for thine inheritance." In the hallowing of the priestly family the following points are observable. "And the God of the Old Testament, is a God of wrath, and judgment, but I love the God of the New Testament who is forgiving, and gracious and kind." The glory of God, or at any rate the effect of seeing His goodness, was brought too near to them. THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. They're not to make any covenant because, verse fifteen. 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. Nevertheless, the opposite meaning would not be inappropriate here, With cutting off He will not cut off; for this is sometimes the sense of the verb , nakah; and it would thus be read conneetedly, that God pardons iniquities because He does not wish entirely to cut off the human race; for who shall escape if God should choose to call to judgment the sins even of believers? For the bare possession of a new nature or place would not enable us to do the will of God. It is not Christianity to talk of "deficiencies of the Spirit," any more than of "still remaining tendencies to sin;" still less to call in the discipline of the law to mend matters. THE FULFILMENT BY GOD OF HIS PROMISE TO MOSES. They could not exist. Exodus hides the complex details while assets are exchanged in seconds. It is God displaying Himself in Christ; but those who had this connection with Christ were Israel. If you only knew the high value God placed upon you, you'd be amazed, if you knew how highly God prized you. (6.) The Divine justice is Inflexible. WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. The conditions are the same as before. I grant you this that, looked at as a whole, distressing failure was setting in just as it was here; yet as here the very failure isolated the truehearted, but isolated them not in want of love but in the strongest possible manifestation of divine charity and sense of God's glory. In one of the cases you will see many of the little gods that were representing Baal. Merciful, first because mans misery makes him first an object of pity (Judges 10:16; Isaiah 63:19). On Moses reaching the summit of CHAPTER XXXIV. concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His 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. Even so, in Exodus 34:6, we have the lengthened explanation of the Divine glory; while in 1 John 4 there is the same and substancethe essence of allin the three words, God is Love., (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. into the Tent of Meeting (which is here presupposed): cf. They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. See EXODUS 33:9 NUMBERS 11:17,25. It is the application of the full power of the work of the Lord Jesus. There cannot be a more striking illustration of the truth that Christ is the continual object of the Holy Ghost than that, even in these temporary ordinances, God cannot refrain from looking onward to His Son. Advantage must not be taken of the weak or subject; violence cannot go unpunished, any more than dishonour where we owe reverence; responsibility for what is allowed, were it but a mischievous brute; restitution must be made, and this double, fourfold, or even fivefold, according to the wrong; neither a witch nor an offender unnaturally could live; neither stranger nor widow nor orphan must be vexed or afflicted; neither poor must be burdened, nor judges reviled; but God is to be honoured with the first of the fruits, and of the sons, as well as of the cattle. concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED No.In Corinthians we are told that the reason for the veil over his face is so that they would not see the shining go away, fading. They take a mingled system; they mix up law and grace together. Accordingly they were severed by the ordinance of circumcision and other rites. The tendency of some to insist on the whole in an instant is a reaction from the popular unbelief, which, if it allow peace at all, allows it as a matter of slow, laborious and uncertain attainment. No such carnal thought entered as if God had need of bread from man. [This is a feast of Passover.] Web34. 8. It was the power of the Spirit. At the opening of this book, wh Exodus 34:5 LORD H3068 descended H3381 (H8799) cloud H6051 stood H3320 _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's Grace binds us with Christ as Aaron with his sons. pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had th 1 The Tables are renued. WebWith this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. We know His tender mercy in the smallest matters; but in that which so nearly concerns His honour, it is indeed a truly merciful provision that the Great High Priest bears the iniquity of holy things, where other wise defilement would be fatal. God himself is the Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God ( Exodus 34:11-14 ): Now there are people who have difficulty with God demanding the extermination of the people within the land. There is no other means of knowing the mind of God; the power for understanding is the Spirit of God; and the object in whose light alone it can be understood is Christ. 448-49. CHAPTER 34 1. 2. This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. It can press duty to God and man on pain of death, but it has no object to reveal. No doubt He cannot but be a divine person, the Son, as He is also the exalted Lord; but He is nevertheless by His own grace the servant for ever. The name el, is added, which, originally derived from strength, is often used for God, and is one of His names. 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. What impression it made upon him: Moses made haste, and bowed his head,Exodus 34:8; Exodus 34:8. WebExodus 34:5 Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament When Moses had restored the covenant bond through his intercession ( Exodus 33:14 ), he was Undoubtedly there is another measure of responsibility. It is a fountain that ever flows and is never exhausted (Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 3:21; Philippians 4:19). Calvin Soc. Perhaps this satisfied him, and he desired no more; as we read not that Thomas did thrust his hand into Christ's side, though Christ invited him to do it. Hearken, says Law, to the melody of this sweet note. "And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." And when he would come out, and speak with the children of Israel that which was commanded. WebExodus 34:7. All the people answer when the words and judgments are pronounced, "All the words which Jehovah hath said will we do." So if their dads were guilty of doing a stupid thing, they'll usually follow that because that's the role model that they had. 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