Exodus 4:1
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. THEY WILL NOT. suppose they will not. THE LORD (Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. THEY WILL NOT. suppose they will not. THE LORD (Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SAID. See note on Exodus 3:7, and compare note on Exodus 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE [JEHOVAH] SAID, Occurs nine times in Exodus: Exodus 4:3; Exodus 4:7; Exodus 4:14; Exodus 15:26; Exodus 15:24.; Exodus 33:14; Exodus 33:19; Exodus 33:20; Exodus 34:10. Compare notes on... [ Continue Reading ]
CAUGHT IT. stiffened it. Same word as "hardened" Pharaoh's heart.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEPROUS. First occurance. Nine so afflicted: Exodus 4:6. Num 12:10. 2 Kings 5:1 2 Kings 5:27. 2 Kings 7:3; 2 Kings 15:5. (2 Chronicles 26:20). Matthew 8:2; Matthew 26:6; Luke 17:12. (Ninth case, 21 individuals. App-10.)... [ Continue Reading ]
VOICE. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6), by which the "sign" is personified.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE TWO SIGNS. See note on Exodus 7:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LORD. Should be "Jehovah". One of the 134 places where "Jehovah" in the Primitive Text was altered to "Adonai". App-32. NOT ELOQUENT. Hebrew "not. man of words "(Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.) Supposed to contradict Acts 7:22, but eloquence is no necessary part of "wisdom". With "all the wisdom of the... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO HATH MADE, &c. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL BE. Hebrew. _'ehyeh._ See on Exodus 3:14; Exodus 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS NOT AARON, &c. Figure of speech _Erotesis_ in Negative affirmation. App-6. THE LEVITE. Why this? Was not Moses. Levite? Is it not to indicate that He whom He would send (Exodus 4:13) would be of the tribe of Judah?... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT WORDS (Hebrew "the words ") in his mouth. Compare Numbers 23:5; Numbers 23:16; Numbers 22:35.Deuteronomy 18:18; John 17:8. This is. definition of Divine inspiration. I WILL BE. Hebrew. _'ehyeh._ See on Exodus 3:14; Exodus 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL BE. Figure of speech _Repetitio_ (App-6), for emphasis. thy spokesman. In Exodus 7:1. " thy prophet": hence God's prophet is God's spokesman, "the man of God" (Deuteronomy 33.Psalms 90, Title), "God's man" who spoke for God. Qualified only by God's Spirit (Numbers 11:29), and God's Word (2... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SAID. See note on Exodus 3:7, and compare note on Exodus 6:10. ALL. Not merely Pharaoh, but all the court faction. are dead. The counterpart to Matthew 2:15; Matthew 2:20. THY LIFE. thy soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
SONS. Gershom and Eliezer. See on Exodus 2:1. UPON AN ASS. Still young, So that Moses married after many years in Midian. ROD OF GOD. His own rod is now thus dignified.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL HARDEN. I will embolden. By Hebrew idiom active verbs of doing are used of suffering or permitting. thing to be done. Compare Genesis 31:7, e.g. Hebrew "God did not give him to do me evil". Compare Authorized Version Exodus 5:22.Psalms 16:10 (give. suffer); Jeremiah 4:10 (deceived. suffered t... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH THE LORD [JEHOVAH]. Occurs in Ex. three times, Exodus 4:22; Exodus 7:17; Exodus 9:1. Literally "hath said"; as elsewhere. MY SON. Compare Matthew 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE WAY IN THE INN. A further lesson, not learnt in Egypt or at Horeb.. secret in Moses' life, known only to himself. Moses had neglected to circumcise Eliezer. To save the child's life, Zipporah now performs the rite herself. HIM. the son (Exodus 4:23). Compare Genesis 17:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
STONE, or knife. SON. Eliezer. Compare Exodus 4:20. BLOODY HUSBAND. Hebrew "a husband of bloods". Genitive of relation, i.e. with rites of blood; alluding to circumcision, which she had tried to evade and avoid.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE: i.e., Jehovah. HIM. Moses' son Eliezer. Compare Exodus 4:24.Genesis 17:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AARON, "GO, &c. Aaron apparently brought up in Pharaoh's house. See 1Sa 2:27, 1 Samuel 2:28. MET HIM. Compare the parting at mount Hor, Numbers 20:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE BELIEVED. Compare Exodus 4:1; Exodus 4:8; Exodus 3:18. VISITED. See Genesis 50:24; Genesis 50:25 and Exo 24:25. Compare Exodus 6:6, "redeem", with Luke 1:68.... [ Continue Reading ]