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| Chapter LIII.—The love of Moses towards his people.
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Chapter LIII.—The love of Moses
towards his people.
Ye understand, beloved, ye understand
well the Sacred Scriptures, and ye have looked very earnestly into the
oracles of God. Call then these things to your remembrance. When Moses
went up into the mount, and abode there, with fasting and humiliation,
forty days and forty nights, the Lord said unto him, “Moses, Moses,
get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people whom thou didst bring
out of the land of Egypt have committed iniquity. They have speedily
departed from the way in which I commanded them to walk, and have made to
themselves molten images.”236
And the Lord said unto him, “I
have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiff-necked people: let Me destroy them, and blot out
their name from under heaven; and I will make thee a great and wonderful
nation, and one much more numerous than this.”237
But Moses said, “Far be it from Thee, Lord: pardon
the sin of this people; else blot me also out of the book of the
living.”238
O marvellous239
love! O insuperable perfection! The servant speaks freely to his
Lord, and asks forgiveness for the people, or begs that he himself might
perish240
| 240 Literally,
“be wiped out.” | along with them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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