Verse 10
10. Let me alone Do not interfere, and restrain the punitive outgoing of my wrath by the intercession which I see in thy heart . “Moses had not yet opened his mouth, but God foresaw the holy violence with which his importunity would besiege his throne . ” Bush .
That I may consume them Exodus 32:28 shows that about three thousand of the people perished before the consuming judgment that followed hard upon the sin, but Moses’s plea availed to modify the extent of the fearful stroke . Exodus 32:14. The blending of justice and mercy in God’s revelations of himself to Israel is worthy of devout attention . His wrath is a fearful power, and may wax hot against transgressors of his law, and certainly will consume the unrepentant sinner; but he also “keepeth mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,” (Exodus 34:7. )
I will make of thee a great nation He intimates that he might destroy all the rest of the nation, and by means of Moses alone raise up the great nation of which the promise to the fathers had repeatedly spoken .
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