Verse Exodus 3:5. _PUT OFF THY SHOES_] It is likely that from this circumstance all the eastern nations have agreed to perform all the acts of their religious worship _barefooted_. All the Mohammedans...
PUT OFF THY SHOES - The reverence due to holy places thus rests upon God’s own command. The custom itself is well known from the observances of the temple, it was almost universally adopted by the anc...
CHAPTER 3 THE BURNING BUSH AND THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF MOSES _ 1. The vision of the burning bush (Exodus 3:1)_ 2. Jehovah speaks and calls Moses (Exodus 3:4) 3. Moses' answer (Exodus 3:11) 4. T...
EXODUS 2:23 TO EXODUS 3:15. THE CALL OF MOSES ( FIRST ACCOUNT). Exodus 2:23_ a_, J, Exodus 2:23 _b_ -...
DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER. This may be taken as proper to the Old Testament dispensation, which was. dispensation of darkness, bondage and terror, which the Gospel happily frees us from, giving us boldness...
Exodus 3:1 TO EXODUS 4:17. Moses commissioned by Jehovah at Horeb to deliver His people. The dialogue between Jehovah and Moses, as in other cases (cf. Delitzsch on Genesis 12:1), must be pictured, no...
AND HE SAID, DRAW NOT NIGH— Soon as Moses discerned this _astonishing sight,_ his curiosity was raised, and he turned aside to contemplate it; doing which, as some suppose, with too much boldness, he...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 3 Now Mo-ses was keeping the flock of Je-thro his father-in-law, the priest of Mid-i-an: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of...
_AND HE SAID, DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER: PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM OFF THY FEET, FOR THE PLACE WHEREON THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND._ Put off thy shoes. The direction was in conformity with a usage which was...
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THE CALL OF MOSES AND HIS COMMISSION TO BE THE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL 1. Horeb] The names Horeb and Sinai seem to be synonymous, though it has been suggested that Horeb is the name given to the entire mo...
Every place where God manifests Himself is holy. To take off the shoes is an ancient as well as modern way of expressing reverence in the East. The Mohammedan takes, off his shoes when he enters the m...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 GOD CALLS MOSES 3:1 – 4:17 THE BUSH THAT BURNED – VERSES 1-6 V1 N...
PUT OFF THY SHOES. — Rather, _thy sandals._ It is doubtful whether shoes were known at this early date. They would certainly not have been worn in Midian. Egyptians before the time of Moses, and Orien...
וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר אַל ־תִּקְרַ֣ב הֲלֹ֑ם שַׁל ־נְעָל
CHAPTER III. _ THE BURNING BUSH._ Exodus 2:23 - Exodus 3:1 "In process of time the king of Egypt died," probably the great Raamses, no other of whose dynasty had a reign which extended over the indi...
GOD'S MESSAGE FROM THE BUSH Exodus 3:1 The learning of Egypt was not sufficient to equip Moses for his life-work. He is taken to the solitudes of the wilderness. _That_ is God's college. All who have...
At last the actual call of God came to Moses. It found him fulfilling a daily duty, keeping the sheep of his father-in-law. There can be no doubt that in the silent solitudes of the wilderness he had...
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: (e) put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] (f) holy ground. (e) Resign yourself to me; (Ruth 4:7; Joshua 5:15). (f) Because...
Shoes. Juvenal, sat. 6, takes notice of this custom. Observant ubi festa mero pede sabbata reges. (Du Hamel) --- The Ethiopian Christians and the Turks never enter their churches, or mosques, without...
The putting off the shoe is figurative for the putting on holy reverence, and godly fear. Joshua 5:15. It is not meant to forbid a drawing nigh to God, for David says, it is good to draw nigh unto God...
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
_REVERENCE_ ‘Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.’ Exodus 3:5 The text is a call to reverence. I need hardly say how much that duty is dwelt upon...
But at last God looks upon His people, and not only gives the faith that identifies itself with His people, but displays the power which delivers them. That Moses, who was rejected as a prince and a j...
AND HE SAID, DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER,.... Keep a proper distance: PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM OFF THY FEET; dust and dirt cleaving to shoes, and these being ordered to be put off from the feet, the instrumen...
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground. Ver. 5. _Draw not nigh._] Be not rash, but reverent. Heathens could say,...
_Draw not nigh hither_ Keep thy distance. Thus God checks his curiosity and forwardness, and disposes his mind to the greater reverence and humility. _Put off thy shoes from thy feet_ This is required...
1 Moses keepeth Iethros flocke. 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush. 9 He sendeth him to deliuer Israel. 14 The name of God. 15 His message to Israel. 1 NOWE Moses kept the flocke of Iethro...
And He said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. The places where the Lord deigns to appear to sinful men are ever afterward...
THE BURNING BUSH...
C. THE CALL OF MOSES. HIS REFUSAL AND OBEDIENCE. HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AARON AND THEIR FIRST MISSION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL Exodus 2:3 1Now Moses kept [was pasturing] the flock of Jethro his father-i...
THE BURNING BUSH: MOSES CALLED TO EGYPT In tending Jethro's sheep Moses came to Mount Horeb, called "the mountain of God," because it signified Israel's relationship with God as under law. It is also...
1-6 The years of the life of Moses are divided into three forties; the first forty he spent as a prince in Pharaoh's court, the second as a shepherd in Midian, the third as a king in Jeshurun. How ch...
DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER; keep thy distance; whereby he checks his curiosity and forwardness, and works him to the greater reverence and humility. Compare EXODUS 19:12,21 JOS 5:15. PUT OFF THY SHOES: this...
We shall now resume the personal history of Moses, and contemplate him during that deeply-interesting period of his career which he spent in retirement-a period including, as we should say, forty of h...
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THE CALL OF MOSES (EXODUS 3:1 TO EXODUS 4:17). What has gone before was preparatory to what follows. It is now that the main story of the book begins, which will take us from God's call to Moses, to t...
Exodus 3:5 I. The essence of reverence lies in our forming a true estimate of our place amongst the powers around us, and so understanding aright and habitually feeling what is our relation to them. N...
Exodus 3:2 I. The vision. (1) The vision was miraculous. (2) Moses had this vision when he was in solitude. (3) It was symbolic (_a_) of Israel in Egypt; (_b_) of the Church in the world; (c) of the...
Exodus 3:1 This narrative is a chain of glorious wonders. We see here I. An old man called to go out on the great errand of his life. The education of Moses for the great mission of his life lasted...
Exodus 3:1. _Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb._ It must h...
This chapter tells of the appearance of God to Moses in the Wilderness. Has he removed from us brethren? He used to be seen by godly souls by mount and stream and sea; and even bushes were alive and b...
CONTENTS: Moses called as deliverer. The burning bush. CHARACTERS: Jethro, Moses, angel. CONCLUSION: Those qualified for great service may expect for a time to be confined to obscurity for special p...
Exodus 3:1. _Horeb_ and Sinai are the same mountain, almost surrounded by two branches of the Red sea. But it has two summits, Sinai on the east, and Horeb on the west. Justinian built a monastery her...
_A flame of fire out of the midst of a bush._ MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH I. The story of Moses is the story, at first, of failure. Two great streams of influences moulded his life--the one drawn from...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 3:1_ MAN IN RELATION TO MYSTERY I. THAT SOMETIMES MEN MEET WITH MYSTERY IN THE PURSUIT OF THEIR DAILY CALLING. “Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro.” Very of...
THE CALL AND MISSION OF MOSES. EXPOSITION EXODUS 3:1 THE MISSION OF MOSES. After forty years of monotonous pastoral life, affording abundant opportunity for meditation, and for spiritual communion...
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1). Now n...
draw not. Exodus 19:12 Exodus 19:21 Leviticus 10:3 Hebrews 12:20 put off....
FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO MOSES Exodus 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the Scripture for today we find Moses eighty years of age. He had spent forty years in Egypt and forty years with Jethro, his...
Put off thy shoes from off thy feet — The putting off the shoe was then what the putting off the hat is now, a token of respect and submission. The ground is holy ground, made so by this special manif...