Exodus 4:27 - Exposition

Go into the wilderness . It is scarcely possible that this can have been the whole of the direction given, since the wilderness extended from the shores of the Mediterranean to the extreme point of the Sinaitic peninsula. The sacred writers study brevity, and leave much to be supplied by the common-sense of the reader. He went and met him in the mount of God . Compare above, Exodus 3:1 , which shows that Horeb is meant. Horeb seems to have been the name for the entire mountain region, of which Sinai was a part. Kissed him. So Esau kissed Jacob after their long separation ( Genesis 33:4 ), and Joseph, Benjamin and his other brethren ( Genesis 45:14 , Genesis 45:15 ). In the East men are more demonstrative than with us. Aaron's kiss showed the gladness that was in his heart ( supra , Exodus 3:14 ).