Exodus 16:34

_AND MOSES SAID, THIS IS THE THING WHICH THE LORD COMMANDETH, FILL AN OMER OF IT TO BE KEPT FOR YOUR GENERATIONS; THAT THEY MAY SEE THE BREAD WHEREWITH I HAVE FED YOU IN THE WILDERNESS, WHEN I BROUGHT YOU FORTH FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations. The mere fact of such a multitude being fed for forty years in the wilderness, where no food of any kind is to be obtained, will show the utter impossibility of their subsisting on a natural production of the kind and quantity as this tarfa gum; and as if for the purpose of removing all such groundless speculations, Aaron was commanded to put a sample of it in a pot-a golden pot (Hebrews 9:4) - to be laid before the Testimony, to be kept for future generations, that they might see the bread on which the Lord fed their fathers in the wilderness. But we have the bread of which that was merely typ

32-36 God having provided manna to be his people's food in the wilderness, the remembrance of it was to be preserved. Eaten bread must not be forgotten. God's miracles and mercies are to be had in remembrance. The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Matthew 4:4. The comforts of the Spirit are hidden manna, Revelation 2:17. These come from heaven, as the manna did, and are the support and comfort of the Divine life in the soul, while we are in the wilderness of this world. Christ in the word is to be applied to the soul, and the means of grace are to be used. We must every one of us gather for ourselves, and gather in the morning of our days, the morning of our opportunities; which if we let slip, it may be too late to gather. The manna must not be hoarded up, but eaten; those who have rece...

Verse Exodus 16:34. _LAID IT UP BEFORE THE TESTIMONY_] The עדות _eduth_ or _testimony_ belonged properly to the tabernacle, but that was not yet built. Some are of opinion that the tabernacle, built under the direction of Moses, was only a renewal of one that had existed in the patriarchal times. Exodus 16:9. The word signifies _reference to something beyond itself_; thus the tabernacle, the manna, the tables of stone, Aaron's rod, c., all bore reference and testimony to that spiritual good which was yet to come, viz., JESUS CHRIST and _his salvation_....

THE TESTIMONY - See the marginal references....

EXPOSITION THE APPEARANCE OF THE MANNA, ITS CONTINUANCE, AND ITS DEPOSITION IN THE TABERNACLE.—In bringing the subject of the manna to a conclusion, the writer adds a few words. 1. On its appearance; 2. On its deposition by divine command in the Ark of the Covenant; and 3. On its continuance during the forty years of the wanderings. It is evident that Exodus 16:32-2 cannot have been written until after the sojourn in Sinai, and the command to make a tabernacle (Exodus 26:1.): as also that...

AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES, SO AARON LAID IT UP BEFORE THE TESTIMONY, TO BE KEPT. That is, before the ark of the testimony; when that was made, as it was in a little time after this, called the testimony, because it contained in it the law, which was a testimony or testification of the mind and will of God unto Israel, see Exodus 25:16 the apostle says, the pot of manna was in the ark, Hebrews 9:4 that is, on one side of it, Hebrews 9:4....

Exodus 16:1. _And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:_ They have been only about six weeks in the wilderness, and already they are up in arms against their leaders. Remember that we have the same kind of people to deal with as Moses and Aaron had. The children of Israel were no better than any other nation; and I do not think they were any worse. We may take them as a fair average of human nature, which is a discontented, rebellious thing in the best of circumstances. Exodus 16:3. A

XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f., Exodus 16:8) Rp, Exodus 16:9 a (morning) P, Exodus 16:13 b - Exodus 16:15 J, Exodus 16:16 P,...

THE TESTIMONY. the Ark. Figure of speech _Hysterologia._ App-6. The ark not yet made....

TAKE A POT, &C.— It is probable that this command is mentioned here by way of anticipation, and that the pot of manna was not laid up _before the testimony,_ till after the giving of the law. This _pot,_ in which the manna was deposited, was of gold, (St. Paul tells us, Hebrews 9:4.) as were all the vessels of the sanctuary. There are disputes among the learned about the _figure_ of this vessel. The Lexicons upon the Hebrew word say, that it signifies an _urn_ or _pot,_ with a wide belly, and strait pointed mouth. Reland is of opinion, that it had such a lid or cover as those pots into which they put wine; and like to those by which it is represented on some Samaritan medals, of which he gives a draft in his learned dissertation: he is of opinion, that the vessel had two handles. _Before the Lord_ signifies the same as _before the testimony;_ an expression