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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.”4283
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.”4284
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.”4285
O
marvellous4286
love! O
insuperable perfection! The servant4287
| 4287 I. δεσπότης
(master). |
speaks freely to his Lord, and asks forgiveness for the people, or begs
that he himself might perish4288
| 4288 Literally, “be
wiped out.” | along with
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