Exodus 24 - Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Bible Study & Commentary

Introduction

A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491.

Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received divers laws and ordinances from God in the foregoing chapters, in this chapter,

( 1,) Comes down to the people, acquaints them with the laws he had received, and takes their consent to those laws, Exodus 24:3 ; writes the laws, and reads them to the people, who repeat their consent, Exodus 24:4 , Exodus 24:7 ; and then by sacrifice, and the sprinkling of blood, ratifies the covenant between them and God, Exodus 24:5 , Exodus 24:6 , Exodus 24:8 .

(2,) He returns to God again, to receive further directions. When he was dismissed from his former attendance, he was ordered to attend again, Exodus 24:1 , Exodus 24:2 . He did so with seventy of the elders, to whom God made a discovery of his glory, Exodus 24:9-11 . Moses is ordered up into the mount, Exodus 24:12 , Exodus 24:13 ; the rest are ordered down to the people, Exodus 24:14 . The cloud of glory is seen by all the people on the top of mount Sinai, Exodus 24:15-17 . and Moses is there with God forty days and forty nights, Exodus 24:18 .

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments

One of the most eminent of the early Methodist ministers in England, Joseph Benson was born at Melmerby, in Cumberland, Jan. 25, 1748. At sixteen he became a Methodist and was converted. In 1766 Mr. Wesley appointed him classical master at Kingswood School. He devoted himself closely to philosophy and theology, studying constantly and zealously.Joseph Benson became a Methodist circuit rider in 1771. A close associate of Wesley, he was chosen to be a member of the Legal One Hundred who governed the Conference at Wesley's death and he was president of the Conference two times. As one of post-Wesley Methodism's most popular preachers, he sometimes addressed crowds of over twenty thousand. Wesley established an extensive organization, including the circuit riding system and a media or press to showcase books, pamphlets, and a monthly magazine. After the death of John Wesley, Joseph Benson took over the Methodist/Wesleyan movement and the organization that Wesley created.During the Bristol dispute of 1794 he led the conservative Church Methodists and was against moves which suggested that the Methodists were breaking ties with the Church of England; he was one of the last leaders to contend for the methods and philosophy of eighteenth-century Wesleyan Methodism. The circulation of The Methodist Magazine rose from ten thousand to twenty-four thousand per issue on his watch, and it was one of the most widely read periodicals in pre-Victorian England. He was an able writer, serving as apologist against Joseph Priestley, as biographer of John Fletcher, and as author of a multi-volume commentary on the Bible.Benson was influential in Methodism, and through the press, especially the magazine, he was able to extend his influence to non-Methodists as well. He and other Methodist leaders, through preaching and publication, disseminated their conservative social and political credo and may be credited in part with creating a climate in which the seeds of Victorianism could thrive.... Show more

One of the most eminent of the early Methodist ministers in England, Joseph Benson was born at Melmerby, in Cumberland, Jan. 25, 1748. At sixteen he became a Methodist and was converted. In 1766 Mr. Wesley appointed him classical master at Kingswood School. He devoted himself closely to philosophy and theology, studying constantly and zealously.... Show more

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