Bible Commentaries

Exodus 14:18 — And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. When I have gotten me honour. — Made me "a name as at this day." Nehemiah 9:10 For this he was famous in far countries. Jethro, the first proselyte to the Jewish Church, was hereby converted, say the Rabbins. And the Philistines cry, "Woe unto us! these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness."

Exodus 24:16 — holiness is required of ministers: the measures of the sanctuary were double to the ordinary, as the shekel, cubit, … Ministers had need wish, as Elisha did, a doubled and trebled spirit, that they may save themselves and those that hear them. 1 Timothy 4:16

Exodus 5:1 — people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. That they may hold a feast. — "That they may serve me." Exodus 4:23 "Let us keep the feast," εορταζωμεν , 1 Corinthians 5:8 which is the same with "Let us serve God acceptably." Hebrews 12:28 It is a feast, and better, for a good soul to converse with God. Psalms 63:5 Isaiah 25:6

Exodus 6:15 — headlong and headstrong, bold and fierce fellow; Genesis 34:25 ; Genesis 49:7 bound by Joseph Genesis 42:24 as one that had been most forward to sell him to the Midianitish merchants. Simeon also is left out in Moses’s blessing. Deuteronomy 33:1-29

Exodus 6:2 — word); that do Press [Sic. - ? Peresse; qui est per se. ] (Gregory’s word); that have being of myself, give being to all things else, and in special to my promises, to "perform with my hand" what I have "spoken with my mouth"; 1 Kings 8:15 only God expects that men put his promises in suit by their prayers, as here, and burden him with them, as that martyr said.

Exodus 6:7 — And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will be to you a God. — This is the top of any man’s happiness, to have God for his God. What can such a man want? Psalms 23:1 As he in Plutarch said of the Egyptians, that though they had no music nor vines among them, yet they had gods. Plut., Sυμπος .

Exodus 8:21 — Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and also the ground whereon they [are]. Shall be full of swarms of flies. — Of all the ten plagues this was the most troublesome; for that they never suffered men to rest: so worldly cares; nocte ac die non dabunt requiem, as those tyrants in Jeremiah 16:1-21 .

Leviticus 13:44 — He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head. His plague is in his head. — Such a leper is every ignorant man; how much more the man that is a heretic! whom therefore after the first and second admonition we must reject, Titus 3:10 yea from such stand off. 1 Timothy 6:5 Keep aloof as from lepers, their very breath is infectious; and like the dogs of Congo, they bite, though they bark not. Purchas’s Pilg.

Leviticus 14:2 — This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: He shall be brought unto the priest. — To teach us to go to Jesus Christ the High Priest of our profession, who healeth all our diseases. Psalms 103:3 He cured the leprosy, to others altogether incurable, by a touch of his hand only. Mark 1:41 Yea, "he sent his word and healed them," Psalms 107:20 and so he doth the souls of sinners that come unto him.

Leviticus 4:31 — And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn [it] upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. For a sweet savour. — See Trapp on " Leviticus 1:9 " The death of Christ is ever in the sight of his heavenly Father: and hence it was that those typical sacrifices and all our performances are still accepted.

Numbers 10:12 — And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. Out of the wilderness of Sinai. — Where they had dwelt long enough. Deuteronomy 1:6-8 It being a place of bondage, by reason of the law there given. Galatians 4:24-25 The law is a yoke of bondage, as Jerome calls it; and they who look for righteousness from thence, are like oxen, who toil and draw, and when they have done their labour, are fatted for slaughter.

Numbers 11:20 — diuturnior, eo minacior - “ Poena venit gravior quo magis sera venit. ” God’s forbearance is no quittance: fatted beasts are but fitted for the slaughter: wicked men are killed with kindnesses: "Ease slayeth the fool." Proverbs 1:32

Numbers 19:7 — Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. The priest shall wash his clothes. — To show the contagion and pollution of sin, 2 Corinthians 7:1 and imperfection of the legal priesthood. Unclean until the evening. — So Numbers 19:8 ; Numbers 19:10 . We had need take time till the evening, to humble our souls, and bewail our unworthiness of the blood of Christ.

Numbers 25:3 — And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. Joined himself to Baalpeor. — Separated himself to that shame, Hosea 9:10 that abominable and shameless service of Priapus, as Jerome and Isidore understand it, as Maachah the mother of Asa seems to have done, 1 Kings 15:13 and other filthy persons, whose fashion was, as soon as their sacrifice was ended, to step aside into

Numbers 33:29 — Chasmonah. — Which signifies swiftness. We must also, when we have tasted of God’s sweetness, use all possible swiftness in the ways of holiness; as Jacob, when he had seen visions of God at Bethel, "lifted up his feet," Genesis 29:1 , marg. and went on his way lustily, like a generous horse after a bait, or a giant after his wine. "The joy of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10

Numbers 7:19 — … — Scipio Africanus was wont, before day, to go into the Capitol, in cellam Iovis, and there to stay a great while, quasi consultans de Rep. cum Iove, as if he had advised with his god about the public businesses. Gell., lib. vii., cap. 1.

Deuteronomy 14:23 — And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. That thou mayest learn, — A man cannot converse with God, but he shall learn something. Semper a te doctior redeo, said he to his friend. Moses came from the mount with his face shining. Compare Ecclesiastes 8:1 .

Deuteronomy 14:3 — Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. Thou shalt not eat any abominable. — See Trapp on " Leviticus 11:1 " … This law taught them to abstain from communion with wicked men, in whom are found the malignities and evil properties of all other creatures. Acts 10:13 ; Acts 10:17 ; Acts 10:20 ; Acts 10:28 They feed hard on sin, the devil’s

Deuteronomy 2:23 — the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, [even] unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) And the Avims, which dwelt in Hazeroth. — These are ancient things, as it is said in another case, 1 Chronicles 4:22 such, as whereof there is no record but this extant in the world. Well might that Egyptian priest say to Solon, that wise man of Greece, You Greeks are very babies - γερων δε ελλην

Deuteronomy 5:6 — I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. I am the Lord, … — See Trapp on " Exodus 20:1 " … It is well observed by a reverend writer, Mr Ley’s Pattern of Piety. that the two tables of the law are in their object answerable to the two natures of Christ. For God is the object of the one, man of the other: and as they meet