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John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 32:34
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Therefore now go, lead the people [unto the] place of which I have spoken unto thee, etc.] That is, to the land of Canaan, which he had promised to their fathers and to them, and had directed Moses to bring them to: behold, mine angel shall go before thee: and not I, as Jarchi interprets it; not the Angel of the covenant, and of his presence, as in (<022320>Exodus 23:20) but a created angel, which, though a favour, was a lessening of the mercy before promised and granted; and which gave the people a great deal of concern, though Moses by his supplications got the former blessing restored, (<023302>Exodus 33:2,4,14,17): nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them; that is, when he should visit them in a way of correction for other sins, he would visit them in like manner for this sin, the worship of the golden calf; and so Jarchi well explains it, “when I visit upon them their iniquities, I will visit upon them a little of this iniquity, with the rest of iniquities; and there is no punishment (adds he) comes upon Israel, in which there is not something of the punishment of the sin of the calf;” and the Jews have a saying f957, that “there is not a generation in which there is not an ounce of the sin of the calf.”
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