c Or, My beauty ; for ſo that Hebrew word is ſometimes uſed, Gen: 6: 2: 1 Sam: 9: 2: or my excellency, or my glory, as appears from Perſe 22. which was the thing Moſes defired to lee : And the difference between his requeſt and Goa's anſwer, doth not lye in glory and goodneſs, but in fhewing his glory io as Moſes might gaze upon it, and making it only, as it follows, to paſs before him, to wit, in a ſudden and very. tranſitory Viſion. Though it may be underſtood properly of God's goodaeſs and kindneſs to men, of which the tollowing words ſpeak, and that was the great, 1f not the only thing aſcribed ro God, Chap. 34+ 6, 7. d(i.e.) My Name; the Noun for the Prenoun, as is very frequent. I will give thee notice when I come, that thou mayſt atrend ; I will nor furprize thee, nor ſteal by thee. Or will proclaira, or pulliſh of the Name of the Lord, or of my name, i.e. ſome part of ir, eſpecially my goodneſs, which may ſeem to be here principally intended, 1. By comparing this with Chap. 34. 6, 7. 2. By the following words, which ſeem a limitation of this general expreſſion, 9. d. T will proclaim, manifeſt, and impart my goodneſs, bur with a difference, not to all men, bur to whom I pleaſe. 3. B other places, where the name of the Lord, 1s principally, if not ſolely underſtood of his goodneſs, as 7/a. 50. 10. and in many places of the Pſalms, e This may ſeem to be added, with reference to rhe people for whom Moſes is interceding, leſt Moſes ſhould miſunderſtand or miſapply what is ſaid here, and Chap. 34.6, 7. The ſenſe is, I will ſh2w this peculiar favour to thee, I will alſo be gracious towards the people thou pleadeſt for, but not promiſcuouſly. Some of them I will ſeverely and eternally puniſh tor this and their other ſins; and ſoine of them I will pardon and ſave, not becauſe they are Righteous, or Innocent, or lefs Sinners than the reſt, but meerly out of my own good Pleaſure and moſt free Grace, whereby I wilt ſhew mercy to | ſome, when I will not ſhew mercy to others. Thus this place is 1 interpreted by the Apoſtle, Rom. g. 16, &c. . 20 And he faid, Thou canft not fee my face f'; for* there ſhall no man ſee me, and Jive g,
f Either 1. My eſſence. But that no man can ſee, neither in this life, nor in the next. Or rather 2. My glorious preſence. g This may note either 1, God's purpoſe that that bliſsful Viſion of God in Glory ſhall be given to no Man here, but is reſerved for the future life. - Or rather 2. The impoſſibility of the thing from Man's weakneſs, which is ſuch, that 1f God ſhould diſplay all rhe Beams ; of his Glory to him, it would certainly aſtoniſh, averwhelm, and ; deſtroy him. ,
21 And the LORD faid, Behold, there is a place by me h, and thou ſhalt ftand upon a rock.
þ Tn this Mountain where my reſidence and glorious preſence now is, and in that part of it whence my Voice now cometh to thine
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and the |; merhod which thou wilt chuſe for the fulfilling of thy promiſe, and the courſe which thou wouldſt have me take, and the way by which | * T ſhall conduft thy people to the promiſed Land. s (3. e.) Thy |
ars. | 22 And it (ball come to paſs, while my glory paſſeth | by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will | cover thee with my hand iwhile I paſs by.
7 Thar thou mayſt not be undone by thy own deſires, nor ſwal- lowed up with the ſight of my glory. .
23 And Iwill take away mine hand, and thou ſhalt
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Back-parts and not his Face. Thou ſhalt ſee a ſhadow or obſcure delineation of my Glory, as much as thou canſt bear, though not
as much as thou dolt detire.
C H A P. XX XIV.
God commands Moſes to kew-two tables of ſtone like the former, wherein he promiſes to write, I. loſes goes with theſ e tables up to the mounTr, 4. God deſcends in a cloud, 5. He proclaims his name, 6, 7. Moſes wor- ſhips, $, 9. God making a covenant with the people, COMMAnds them not to make a covenant with their enemies, 10----12. Bias them beware of molren gods, 13*====-17, The feaſt of unleavened bread, 18.. To reſt on the ſabbath=day, 19-=--=21,
/ ee 4; s theſe words, 27. The time of Moſes's abode on the mount, 28. oſes's face
ſhining, 29. 1s covered, 33. He acquaints the people with what the j ;b I r unpuniſhed, which may make a good ſenſe, yet 1t ſeems much better | to be rendercd, - 1 will not utterly deſtroy ce.
Lord told him, 31, 32. N D the LORD faid unto Moſes, F Hew thee ewo tables of ſtone a, like unto the firſt : and I
will write upon theſe tables che words that were 1n the
firſt tables b which thou brakeſt. £ a The firſt Tables were made immediately by God, who of his own meer Grace and good pleaſure, and without Man s merit or contrivance entered into covenant with Abrahamand his Seed. Theſe Tables muſt be made by Moſes, partly in token of God s diſpleaſure for their ſin, and partly to ſignify, that though the Covenant of Grace was firſt made without Man's care and counſel, yet it ſhould not be renewed but by Mans repentance. And as the Tables of Srone ſignificd the hardneſs of their Hearts, ſo the hewing of them by Moſes might ſignify the circumciſion and plowing up of their Hearts, that they might be fit for the receiving of Go $ mercies, and the performance of their duties. b To ſhew God's reception of 1[rasl into his favour, and their former ſtate, and that the Law & Covenant of God was neither aboliſhed,nor changed by their fin,
c This is faid,not for the Beaſts, which are not capable of a Law,
_ will leave the marks of his Vengeance for this Sin upon thy People,
Other laws, 22---26. Moſes wrote ,
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doth not ſpeak of God's diſpoſition and carriage towards his Ene+ mies, againſt whom he proceeds with great feverity,and commands \| the 1/-aelites to do ſo in the verſes here following ; bur rowards his | People, whoſe caufe Moſes is all along pleading with God. Sce chap. 32. 11, 12, 13, 31, and 33: 13, 15. and 34: 19. 4. The Hebrew Verb here uſed frequently ,fignifies to 22ke empty or deſalate, ro empty Men of their Goods, or Places of Men. See 1/3: 3: 26. Amvs 4: 6. So here he will not utterly empty or defiroy : Though he
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