Éxodo 3:2, Éxodo 3:6-8 RVA

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 3:1-22

THE MISSION OF MOSES . After forty years of monotonous pastoral life, affording abundant opportunity for meditation, and for spiritual communion with God, and when he had attained to the great age of eighty years, and the hot blood of youth had given place to the calm serenity of advanced life, God at last revealed Himself to Moses "called him" ( Exodus 3:4 ), and gave him a definite mission. The present chapter is' intimately connected with the next. Together, they contain an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 3:2

The angel of the Lord . Literally, "an angel of Jehovah." Taking the whole narrative altogether, we are justified in concluding that the appearance was that of "the Angel of the Covenant" or" the Second Person of the Trinity himself;" but this is not stated nor implied in the present verse. We learn it from what follows. The angel " appeared in a flame of fire out of the midst of the thorn-bush"—not out of "a thorn-bush—which may be explained by there being only one on the spot, which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 3:2

The bush in history. The bush had primary reference to Israel, and the fire in the bush represented Jehovah's fiery presence in the midst of his people— 1 . For their protection. A fire flaming forth to consume the adversaries. 2 . For their purification . God was in the fires that tried them, as well as in the power that upheld them. The fire was thus a figurative representation at once of destroying punishment and of refining affliction. But the bush, while burning, was... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 3:2

The angel of the Lord - See the note at Genesis 12:7. What Moses saw was the flame of fire in the bush; what he recognized therein was an intimation of the presence of God, who maketh a flame of fire His angel. Compare Psalms 104:4. The words which Moses heard were those of God Himself, as all ancient and most modern divines have held, manifested in the Person of the Son.Of a bush - Literally, of the bush or “seneh,” a word which ought perhaps to be retained as the proper name of a thorny shrub... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 3:2

Exodus 3:2. The Angel of the Lord appeared to him Not a created angel, but the Angel of the covenant, Christ, who then and ever was God, and was to be man, and a messenger from God to man. He, termed the Angel of God’s presence, (Isaiah 63:9,) had wrestled with Jacob, (Genesis 32:24;) and had redeemed him from all evil, (Genesis 48:16;) and afterward conducted his posterity through the wilderness, 1 Corinthians 10:4. These his temporary appearances were presages of his more solemn... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 3:1-12

God calls Moses (3:1-12)While Moses was minding sheep at Mount Sinai (also called Mount Horeb, after the range in which it was situated), the unseen God, who for eighty years had silently guided his life, made himself known to him. The revelation of God in the burning bush showed that though this God was unapproachably holy, he could dwell among earthly things without destroying them (3:1-6).God was now going to use Moses to deliver his people from bondage in Egypt and bring them into a new... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 3:2

Angel of the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah. ( App-4 ). Genitive of App. ( App-17 ): i.e. Jehovah Himself, Exodus 3:4 , then "God" (Exodus 3:4 ). Compare Genesis 18:1 , Genesis 18:13 , Genesis 18:17 , Genesis 18:20 , Genesis 18:22 , Genesis 18:33 ; Genesis 19:1 , Genesis 19:24 ; and compare Genesis 32:24 , Genesis 32:30 with Hosea 12:3 , Hosea 12:4 . appeared. Forty years after. bush burned . Same lesson as the "furnace" of Genesis 15:17 , read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 3:2-3

"And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.""The angel of Jehovah ..." As the context proves, "The Angel of Jehovah is not a created angel but Jehovah himself in his act of self-revelation."[10] This is merely another name for God, of which there are many in the Bible.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 3:2

Exodus 3:2. The angel of the Lord— In the note on Gen 16:7 we have delivered our opinion at large, concerning the Angel of the Lord, which, with the generality of Christian interpreters, we conceive to have been the Messiah, the Angel, or Messenger of the Covenant, It is very evident from this chapter, that the Person here appearing to Moses was no created Angel, but Jehovah himself, the second Divine Person in the Trinity; see Exodus 3:4; Exodus 3:6; Exodus 3:14, &c. the same who conducted... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 3:2

2, 3. the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire—It is common in Scripture to represent the elements and operations of nature, as winds, fires, earthquakes, pestilence, everything enlisted in executing the divine will, as the "angels" or messengers of God. But in such cases God Himself is considered as really, though invisibly, present. Here the preternatural fire may be primarily meant by the expression "angel of the Lord"; but it is clear that under this symbol, the Divine... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 3:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 3:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 3:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 3:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 3:2

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 3:1-12

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 3:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 3:2-3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 3:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 3:2

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