Exodus 32:11-13 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Exodus 32:11-13 - Exposition

Moses has three pleas wherewith he "wrestles with God:"—

1 . Israel is God's people, for whom he has done so much that surely he will not now destroy them, and so undo his own work.

2 . Egypt will be triumphant if Israel is swept away, and will misapprehend the Divine action.

3 . The promises made to Abraham ( Genesis 15:5 ; Genesis 17:2-6 ; etc.), IsaActs ( Genesis 26:4 ), and Jacob ( Genesis 28:14 ; Genesis 35:11 ), which had received a partial fulfilment, would seem to be revoked and withdrawn if the nation already formed were destroyed and a fresh start made.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Exodus 32:11-13 - Exposition

Exodus 32:11-13 - Exposition

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