PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Exodus — Volume 2
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 360,812 words · 378 reading sections
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XXXII. to oome down. He had been abs~nt, probably above e. month. It we.s the first day of their Vera. 1-6.-THE IDOLATRY OF THE GOLDEN worship when he descended ; and " week CALF, During the absence of Moses in Mount would suffice for the collection of the orn1L- Sinai, an absence of nearly six w…
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ohjrrtro to the renderiuir, " he bonnd it. in a. forme<t a portion of their religiou8 svmbolism ? hll.!!, .. thRt that action is sotri,·i&] that it "·onld May it not have been this concep"tion whith hr super61101Ls to mention it (Keil). But it is lay at the root of the cherubic fonns, and the quite ronsone.nt with t…
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I. THAT TRF.Y nROKE A Pr,AIN COMMANJ) 01" Goo, AND ONE TO WHICH Trrnv HAD nEcENTLY PLEDOim Tflr:MsEr,vrr,s, "All the words which the Lord hath s,i,ir\," they hnd declnred "we will do" ( eh. xxiv. 3); !Lnd among these "words" was the plnin one--" Thou she.It not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of a…
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1\1,-,,"" went up into the monnt,11.in, be knew not how long be would have to wll.it, th,11 "'"" not for him or ABron or Boy mBn to know. But however long he WII.S to be away all due pro,i~ion hRd been made for the people's welfare. The daily morning tnann; was there; and Aaron and Hur wore Bppointed to settle &ny disp…
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their voices were dro'l'.'ncd in the general clamour. The " lewd fellows nf the b11ser sort" (Acts xvi i. 6) had, for the mnment, the upper hand in the host, an,I swept all before them. Intimidated by the show of violence, Aaron weakly acceded t,Q the people's request. The whole incident strikingly illustrates the comm…
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mn11strn11, t~ propoRe to worship the spiritual Jebov11.h, who had expressly forbidden tho use 11 1 :zr:wcn images in his service, under the symbol of a calf, 11.lbeit the idol WM of i:nld. 11 was worse than monstrous, it wl\ll hideous, to employ the name of the Holy IJne tn cover the ~hameless and revolting orgios …
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EXPOSITION. Vers. 7-H,.-T.IIE 111'.TERCJ:SBION OF MOSES. been false to his past, and wanting in tender- Moses, in Sinai, was so far removed from the ness towards those who were at once his wards camp, and the cloud so shut out his vision of and his countrymen. His own glory naturally it, that he had neither seen nor h…
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HOMILETICS. T ers. 7-10.-The a'n{lff qf God. God may well be angry when his people aposta- ti&e; and having n,cently professed entire submission to his will (eh. xix. 8; u:iv. 3), rebel suddenly, a.nd cast his wor-i.'I behind their backs. God's anger against Israel was a.t this time intensified- I. BY TBEm EXTB.Elll!…
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11iLful hee.rt were e.s nothing compe.red to this. If it had only been the sin of e. few, some half-~ecret depe.rture from Jehove.h confined to R corner of the ce.mp; if there he.d been 11 prompt repudie.tion of it e.nd punishment of it on the patt of the gree.t majority: then, indC!'<l. Jehove.h might he.ve found c…
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seemed at the time, would afterwards have been seen as neither any hindrance in th fulfilment of God's purposes, nor any dimming of the brightness of his glory. Be ii remembered tho.t these same people whom God brought out with great power and '1 mighty hand, yet nevertheless perished in the wilderness. Spared this tim…
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III. EvIL REPE~"TED OF. Notice :-1. The repentance '1'1'11.8 in direct answer to the lnterceesion (cf. vers. 12, 14.). God did RB MoseR begged thRt he would do. Had Moses been lee6 firm, God'e wrath would cortRinly have con~umed the people. Yet--2. God cannot change! No: but Moses kept his place [cf. the wall screening…
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consent of God__t_o the people _going up to qano.an, on_ly, however, under the cnnil11ct nf an angel (eh. xxx111. 1-4); tlurd, the promise that his own pre,rence woulr\ "0 with them (eh. xxxiii. 14); finally, the perfect re-establishment of friendly relations, i':i the renew~! of the covenant (eh. xxxiv. 10). Like Jaco…
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festh·ity which was going on in the co.mp shut out from sight; and that sound~ would rear.hed their co.rs; o.nd Joshua, mistaking the be beard from it IL long time before the plain nRtul't' of the shouts. suggest.I'd tho.t fighting itself would open on the view (Stanley, Sinai and. Pal.eiitine, p. 44). Sounds, howev…
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thnn the pyramids themselves or the grent temple of Karnak-here was a mnn•unerit shaped by the hand of God, nnd inscribed with his finger in characters thnt wonld l,a,·,, possessed through nil ages nn undying interest for man. Here, moreover, was a prcr;i,.,is deposit of truth-God's great revelation to his people--p…
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the moun~in. G~at wa.e the cont1'1lllt between the thing~ heavenly on which for forty days a~d fort)· nights his eyes had been uninterruptedly feasting, and the scenos he w1111 now t., w1tnesR. f:ven the light of common day could hardly seem otherwise than etmngo to him, emergmg from his ecstasy. His bodily 1111pect…
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that the blame of his sin rested on soma rme else than himself. " Let not the ,mg~r or mr lord w~x hot: thou knowest the people, that they are bent on mischief. I•'or they s:wl to me, etc, (vers. 22-24). It 1s, as we say, the old, old story of all evil-doers-- " It wasn't me, indeed it wasn't; it was those wicked peopl…
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HOMILETICS. °'er. 20.-Ioolatry con.dem.rud by the idol's weakness and nothingness. An idol is "nothing in the world" (1 Cor. viii. 4)--ha.s no power-cannot even save itself. Nothing convinces men of the vanity of idols.try so much a.s to see their idol destroyed. We read in Bede that Northumbria was convert.ed chiefly…
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m(lre happily circumet.anced it would hR,·P l,Prn diffrrent.. A~ if a mnn did not to e. larg~ exten1, make hi~ own circumstJrnrPR, rhon~r hiR cornp1rnion~, construct his own way ol hfe. V.'e a.re not forced to compeny with eny men, much less any women, out of husinelll' hou!'II. We a.re not compelled to ~o to places…
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HlMILETICS. Vere, 26-28.-77,e puniBhment of idolatry. God did not long allow the sin a,c,ainst hie majesty to remain unpunished. He d~clared his will to MoMes (ver. 27)-""Thus BBith the Lord God of lsra.el"-a.nd Moses, with his usun.l dutifulness, wa..~ prompt to execute his will. Having obtained the necessary force, …
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'J'hi~ now turns to their honour. The text, however, does not forllid the supposition thRt i11diuid11als from the other tribes also came out, and separated themselves at the call of Moses. III. Tm; OOMMil!BION. This was llUfficiently eanguinary. It put the fidelitJI' of Levi fo a terrible test. "Thus eaitb the Lord Go…
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HOMILETICS. ,·{'n;. 30-M.-No.,es cis thefom-unner qf <Jhritit. •• A prophet eball the Lord your n,al rni~c up unto you like 1mto me," eaid the great lawgiver, ere be lei\ the earth ( l lcut. x,•ii. 16, 18) ; and the parallelism between Christ and M09es ie in many respects mn,t ~t.riking. 1. Both were of obecure birth…
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fluctuations of human nature. From extreme to extreme the pcn,\ulnrn swings. 1',·,,- v1011sly he spok_e ns ~lm?st rcb_uking Jehovah for thinking t? destroy :1iH people; n"w even when the msult1ng 1mnge 1s ground to powder, and the nnglenders in tr"n,.,ros.,i, ,11 destroyed, he mRkes his way into the Divine presence a.q…
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patent wichdn~s. The temptation, on the contrary, may now be to accuee the law• gFer 0!_ un_1ustifi1thle and unholy anger-of reckless diBl'Elgard of human life. The charf!n_ IS groun<lleRB; but if, for a moment, it should appear natural, the reply to it is f\'IID<I m thPst.udy of this second scene upon the mount. Su…
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~.he h)ll to 1:>8 offer~ on the 11it_ar by Abraham his father. A much nearer type is i\T,,,es, setting his face (cf. Luke 1x. 61) to ascend the mount, and hearirw in his hecirt this sublime purpose of devoting himself for the sins of the nntion. ;, Gre;,ter Inv,, hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for…
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:14. a"d in ,·er 2 of thie chapter. By 'l"MI. 2 tion. Some day t.hey would BO provoke him, and :1 tnkPn i11 comhinat,ion it was rendered that be would oouume them in the way. manife•I. hnth to Moses and to the people Ver. 4.-Wheu the people heard. M08ell ( YPr. 4 ). that the~· were threatened with the had communicated…
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the grievous sin into which ho h,u\ fallen. This, ngain, was a jur\gment. Of a si111iln.r cha.meter was his " removal of Isrncl out of his sight" (2 Kings xvi i. 23) in thP, reigu of Hoshea, and hie "casting of Jerusalem anrl Judah out of his sight" (2 Kiog 8 xxiv. 20), in the roign of Zedekiah. And so, when, at the pr…
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Yer. 7-•0lel took the t&bemule. The tinnance of thie " tent of meeting," alternated " ta bernaclc •• proper wa.s not yet constructed. bl'tween the top of Sinai and the door of the (~ee chs. xxx,·.-xl.) And the word used is tent, descending ,-•hen Moses entered the tent nnl that properly rendered "tabernacle"- and rc…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS .AUTHORS. Vers. 1-12. .A nation in garb of penitence. On this section consider- I. THE CONDITIONED PROMISE (vers. 1--4). God has consented to spa.re the nation. They are to set out forthwith on the journey to Cana.an. But his presence is no longer to go with them. He would send an angel. Notice-!.…
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EXPOSITION. Vers. 12-17.-TuE REVOCATION OP TIIE Ver. 14.-Ky praenoe llhaU ro with thee. THREAT OF WTTHDllAWAL. After some days' Literally," My presence shall go uf. "-my own •· \\-rest ling with Ood •· in the" tent of meet- presence, not that of au auge . That for ing:· Moses prayed to know definitely what which Mo…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 12-18.-The thira intercessi(J'TI,. Moses on this occasion pleads with God to restore his presence to the people. Very noteworthy a.re the steps in his entreaty. I. He veils his request under the form of a desire to know the divine intentions (ver. 12). Will God go up with them or not…
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Moses. The so-called ff traditions "are worth- Ver. 23.-Thon 1h11lt see my baok part8 fo!III; and we can only eay t.hat the Beane WllB Literally, " my back." The nnthroporw,r- probably some portion of the upper part of the phisms of the passage ure numerous and stron" Ras Sufeafeh. -they must, of courso, he rngarde,I ,…
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HOMILms BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 18-23.-" Shew me thy g'lory." On this incident, remark- I. THE GOOD MAN THIRSTS FOB EVER FULLER IU.NIFEBTATIONS OF THE DIVINE GLORY, The more he knoWI! of God, the more he would know. The nearer he gets, he presses nearer still. He " longs" to see God's power and glory" (Ps. lxiii.…
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III_. Goo's SOVEREIGNTY JN THE EXER0!SE OF ~ROY IB 1':0'I'. A~BITRARINl':AS. (Sec on eh. v1. 14---28.) It has, as there shown, 1te self-1mpoeed hm1tat1one and inherent laws of operation. It is holy, wise, and good. It aims, we may believe, at the ultimate salvation of the largest number possible, consistently with all …
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~kless, but their very apostasy and recklessness bring out into stronger relief the clinging obedience of Moses. He hBB done well, and, more than that, Jehovah ha.1 spproved him; and now, therefore, he plesde that the a.pprovlll may not be in word only, but in deed; not in the promise of 110me future and distant rec…
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come up into the midst of thee in a moment 1md consume thee." These are the effects of the Spirit's work to-dBy. The same cry is lifted:-" Flee from the wrath to come." II. THE SEPARATION OF Goo's PEOPLE FROM THE MIDST OF l!URROUNDING BIN AND 1TB RESULTS, 1. Its necessity as I\ testimony to God's seporatirm from sin. …
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1--4. -The llllCOnd prom:,ilgatum of the moral, law, by the renewal of the two tables, may tea.eh us- I. 'l'IUT ALL COVENANT WITH GoD IIUBT BEST ON THE BASIS OF THE MORAL LAW. Moses had not asked for a renewal of the tables. He had requested the return of God's favour and the renewal of God's share …
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Vera. 1-4.-The second set of tables. Jehovah graciously answered the supplications of Moses (xxxiii. 12-23) so far as it was possible to answer them. Supplications may be very importunate, and, therefore, so far well pleasing to God, and yet at the same time they may be faulty in two respects: first, they may ask for t…
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'l'he f'('Opk's Rin is not yet perfectly forgiven. God, indeed, has promised to go with them. but he ha~ not said, IL8 of old, "I will take you to me for a people, &nd I will be to you a G-od" (Ex. vi. 7). The new relations &re not those of perfect.ed friendship. The~- Rre moNo,•er, unstable. New transgressions of t…
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JII. TBE COVENANT RESTORED (vers. 9, 27, 28). 1. The interce.9Rinn. This fourth and last intercession presents us with several noteworthy features. (1) It was very pro- longed. The nccount here is summary; but Moses tells us in Deuteronomy (eh. ix. 2fi), that he "fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights a…
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n11.me of the Lord in the manner more fully and 6. Forgiving iniquity and transgreBsion statf'd in 1h~ cnauing venee. and sin-n accumulation for the purpose of Vers. G. 7.-TbeLordpun41.bybllforehim. emphRBis-t.o ll.!l81U'e MOBes, and through him f'T<>d dirl a. h~ h&d promised in eh. nxiii. 22, mankind at large, of the…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. ~.-The "name." Consider on this I. THE CONNECTION WITH THE NAME JEHOVAH. "Proclaimed the name of Jehovah" (ver. 5). Observe-I. 'l'he name Jehovah connote,s mora.1 attributes. The ab~olute being is, at the sa.me time, the most perfect being. His excellence includes a.11 possible perf…
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Mercy ·• in " Er,r,e Tlomo." (2) J uRtice 011.nnot be 111.id a.side. God "will by no meane clear the guilty." See Homily on eh. xxiii. 21. But if God 011.nnot dear the guilty, CR.nnot, i.e. cRll guilt other th11.n wh11.t it ie, or refuee to punish it, he CR.n, on the ground of hi■ l'-ou'~ atonement, which fulfils ev…
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Eternity will nevor know ell the length and breadth and depth and height. 7. Th~ largeness of God's morcy (1) toward persons. " Keeping mercy for thou~ands" (2) towanl sins, "forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin." 8. The severity of' God. (1) Ho will not always leave sin unpunished. (2) Ilis mercy may so.ve …
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Ve!'B. 6, 7.-God t's love. A previous revelation, cf. iii. 14. Then the emphasis was on the na-, now it is on the characf,er of him who hea!'B the name. Moeee, In common with the people, longed aft.er some visible manifestation of the glory of the un~een God who spoke to him (xxxiii. 18). His desire is granted; but at …
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he woul<l go up with them ; 2. That he bor,fors, nnd not allow their l11n1I tn he in- wonlcl pardon them ; and 8. That, he would vad_ed at the fe,itivnl seusons (ver. 2·l): ,,a once more take them 118 his inherit.ance (ver. their part, they mu.st "oh.serve th11t whirb I command them•· (vor. 11 ). Marvels nob as 9). W…
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i1npli"' tl111t the relation hPtwern man and pR.'lt no rain can be looked for till the (k,d is analogous to that of the marrie.ge-bond. autumn. ~" that d,..erting him for other gods is a spoci!l!< Ver. 22.~f the flr■t-fruitl. There is of adult.Pry. Compare the frequent repre•en- here &n unfortnnete ambiguity. The En…
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IIOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 10.-" I make a covenant." I. A COVENANT RENEWED. Mark bow in con- nection with this there is-{1) A new command to ascend the mount. (2) A new co=and that the mount shall not be touched. (3) A new manifestation of the Divine glory. Yet how different I (4) A new giving of the law. (5) …
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E~PUSITION. Vers. 2i--35.-F!NA\, DEROENT OF MORES he t&lked with him. Rather, "through his P'ROM 1-TKAI. The r.o,•!'nant he,•ing been re- talking with him." The glory of God, a.s re- nrwro. M~ei; preperrd t.o dl'!lcend, he\'ing first ,·Pn.led to Moses on I.his occasion, caused his hnwe,·er rec.,•ivro e commend t.o c…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 29, 30, 36.-The shining of Moses' face. This strange phenomenon, one of the distinctive marks which most closely assimilate the Jewish with the Christian \aw- givAr, is well worthy of our attentive consideration. I. As TO ITB ORIGIN. Admission to the Divine presence within the cloud had not, on the …
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Ve!"ll. 38---35.-The ,ymboliffra of the 'lleil. The veil upon Moses' face shrouded the glory of his countenanoe from Israel, except at such times as he spake to them the commands of God. So God himself shrouds bis glory from us ordinarily, and only at rare intervals, when be would impress us most deeply, lifts the v…
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transfiguration (Matt,. xvii. 1-8). (4) Partly a consequence of inward mental ex:ilta- tion (d. Acts vi. 15). Communion with God, vision of ,JeMus, the joy of sRlvation, fulness of spiritual life, make both face and character to shine (cf. 2 Cor. iii. 18). II. THE FEAR OF THE PEOPLE (ver. 30). The beauty of the glory …
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intc,lernhle to his deeply-polluted brethren, so much &!ienn.ted in hMrt from God, WM ~tterly unperc-eived by him. 'l'huR effel'tu1dly i,ep&rated from his brethren, the sepa.m- t10u came from no pretension of his own, but from &n inevitable confession made by th,>11e who once &nd e.g&in tried to repudi&te him. He wh…
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Ver. 29.-Mo.•e• wi•t not that the skin of hi•fau •hone whik he talke,l with him.- His face "shone "-literally, "shot out rays "-as we say, was irradiated, became radiant. Notice: I. THE CAUSE OF THE PHENOMENON. "Talked with him." Self had been forgotten in communion with Jehovah, in hearing him and attending to his …
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1, 2.--The Babbatk 'l'Ut iwt to be broken even /or sacred work. Note here a difl'erence. Some work ill rendered necessary by the very nature of that public worship which iB es~i&!ly commanded on the sabbath. " On the sabbath days the priests in the temple, •YB our Lord, "profane the sa.bbath day and …
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HOMILETICS. On the symbolism of the Ta.bemacle and its parts, see the Homiletics on eh. :uv. 10-39; eh. :uvi.; eh. xxvii. 1~; and eh. xxx. 1-10. On the symbolism of th11 anointing oil e.nd the holy incense, see the Homiletics on eh. xxx. 23-28. Vera. 5-19.-The duty and privilege of making offerings to God. That God a…
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EXPOSITION. Vers. 21-29 -Tnrn ZFJAI, 01" T!Jl!I Pl!IOPLl!I IN Ja.cob (Gen. xxxv. 2). Bre.oeletR. RRther. Ol"l"ERillo. Moses dismissed the people; but u buckles., or " brooches.'' Ku.li.i;;r,h snv,, they soon began to return, bringing t.heir " nose-rings,'' and so Gesenins an,l Rn,::::Pn- miiller. Tableta. Rather," ar…
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pla~- ~ ·• And t.h\' general inclina.tion ie to give M little 88 it is decent to give. Or (:1) it is met in a fuR~~- Rpirit.. "Let the matter he well C'-Onsidored-let meetings be held- let a committ.oo be formed-let our Rdvice be taken. If we give, wo must be con- ~nlwd-we must ha,•e 11, voice in the e.rre.ngoments-…
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HOMILETICS. Vars. 30-35.-MASTER·CRAFTSMEN. The qualities needed for a master-craftsman ore fourfold. These o.re here enumerated (ver. 31) a.s-- 1. WISDOM (Heh. khakam; LXX. uoq,la; Vulg. sapientia), the highest gift of all- the powor of original conception, which, if he combines with it the other necessary qualities,…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER :X:X:XVI. veil of the most holy place (vel:'6. 35, 36); 7. The hanging for the entrance to the taber- Ven;. 1-S and 8-38.-Tm: PBOGBESS OF nacle (vers. 37, 38). The chapter, from ver '1'BE WOBK., £.ND THE BUPEIIFLUOUS LIBEBALITY 8, runs parallel with eh. xxvi., differing from OF THE PEOPLE--THE LA…
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Vera. 8-38.-Exactitude in obedience. Kalisch observes on this passage, that, " though even literal repetitions of the same occurrence, or the same comma.od, are noi; unusual in the Biblical style, yet the lengthened and accurate reiteration" which here occurs, is unusual and must have some special meaning, He himself c…
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