Verse 16
16. We cried… he heard Their piety, as evinced by their prayers and the signal answer to their cry for help, is a further commendation. Thus Moses showed that they were not a gang of freebooters, but a moral and religious nation worthy of being trusted with the courtesy of a right of passage through the territory of another people.
Sent an angel The term angel one sent points to the second Person in the Godhead in his office of Revealer and Mediator. Acts are attributed in a special way to Christ which the Old Testament writers, with as much particularity, have predicted of the Messenger of Jehovah. Luke 1:15-17; 1 Corinthians 10:4; Hebrews 12:25-26; comp. Malachi 3:1; Exodus 17:6; Haggai 2:6; see full discussion Biblioth. Sacra, vol. 16:805.
In the uttermost of thy border In accordance with this description Dr. Robinson located Kadesh near Mount Seir, at the fountain el-Weibeh, in the northern part of the great valley Arabah. But the advocates of Ain Gadis are obliged to stretch Edom a long distance westward. Numbers 33:36-37; Joshua 10:41, notes.
Be the first to react on this!
