Exodus 34:1
_Former. Deuteronomy x. 1, adds, and come up to me into the mount, and I, &c. Here._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Former. Deuteronomy x. 1, adds, and come up to me into the mount, and I, &c. Here._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Go up. From these expressions we might infer, that God gave the order first on Mount Sinai, and repeated it to Moses in the tabernacle, the night before he commenced his third fast and supplication of 40 days. (Haydock) --- After the first tables were broken, others were given; so after baptism we... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let no, &c. This was to impress all with sentiments of reverence._... [ Continue Reading ]
_He said. Some refer this to Moses; others, more probably, to God, who had promised, by this signal of the name of the Lord, to testify his presence. (Calmet) --- The angel addresses God in this manner, while Moses lies concealed in the rock, covered with the hand or cloud of God's representative. ... [ Continue Reading ]
_Keepest. So the Targum of Jerusalem reads. Hebrew and Septuagint have, "keepeth." --- No man, &c. All have sinned, Romans iii. 23. Hebrew, "who will not clear the guilty," which is followed by the Chaldean and Septuagint. God is a just judge, who will assuredly punish the impenitent. Yet even in ju... [ Continue Reading ]
(_ For it, &c.) If thou do not support me, I shall not be able to govern. (Haydock) --- Possess us. Take us for thy peculiar inheritance. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Covenant. The first had been made void by idolatry. (Calmet) --- Notwithstanding the former threats, (chap. xxxiii. 3,) God here promises new benefits. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Observe, O my people, (Menochius) you who shall serve under Josue, when these promises shall be fulfilled. (Haydock) --- The Septuagint add the Gergesite to the list of people who should be expelled. But Lyranus thinks they are omitted in Hebrew, because they had already retired before the approach... [ Continue Reading ]
_Statues. Septuagint have, "pillars," and subjoin after groves, (unless it be another translation, as Grabe insinuates) "you shall burn with fire the graven things of their gods."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jealous. Like a husband, He will watch all your motions._... [ Continue Reading ]
Covenant. The same word occurs here, as (ver. 12,) in Hebrew and Septuagint. (Haydock) --- It relates chiefly to contracts of marriage, which God forbids the faithful to enter into with the Chanaanites, and with other idolatrous nations, lest they should follow their example. Solomon is reprehended... [ Continue Reading ]
_Son. The Chaldean and Septuagint add, "nor give any of thy daughters to their sons;" or, joining this verse with the 15th, the Septuagint say, "make no covenant....lest they commit fornication after their gods....and call thee and thou eat....and thou take of thier daughters wives for thy sons, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_New corn. Hebrew, Abib; the name of the month Nisan, which corresponds with our March and April._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Reap; when the most urgent necessity might seem to authorize labour. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Harvest. Pentecost. --- Laid in, at the feast of tabernacles, in September. (Menochius) --- The Septuagint have, "the feast of gathering, in the middle of the (sacred) year." The greatest solemnity of the Passover is mentioned, ver. 18. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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_In wait. Hebrew and Septuagint, "shall desire." (Calmet) --- God engages to protect their land. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sacrifice of the paschal lamb, to which the Chaldean properly restrains this verse. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dam. Chaldean, "thou shalt not eat flesh with milk." See chap. xxiii. 19._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wrote. God wrote on the tables, as he had promised, ver. 1. (Calmet) --- Moses recorded all in this book, as he was ordered, ver. 27. St. Cyprian (de Sp. S.) and St. Augustine (q. 186,) infer, however, from this text, that the second tables had not the same honour as the first. The contrary appears... [ Continue Reading ]
Horned. That is, shining, and sending forth rays of light like horns. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "encircled with glory." St. Paul (2 Corinthians iii. 7,) says, the Hebrews could not look steadfastly at the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his countenance. Hence, he was forced to have a vei... [ Continue Reading ]
_And having, &c. At first, he spoke uncovered. (Menochius) --- The Protestants insert the word till in Italics, to insinuate that Moses spoke with a veil on, as St. Paul mentions; (Haydock) and Calmet would translate, "for Moses had ceased to address the people, and had put a veil upon his face," as... [ Continue Reading ]