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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 12:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he said, hear now my words, etc.] The Targum of Jonathan reads, “I beseech you”; and Jarchi says, this particle always so signifies; but it is not so agreeable to the language of the divine Being: if there be a prophet among you; not as making a doubt of it, but rather allowing that there was, and that there were others besides Moses, as even they themselves, Aaron and Miriam, and the seventy elders, and perhaps others; or at least there had been, and would be again, as there were in later times: [I] the Lord will make myself known to him; that is, declare my mind and will concerning things present, or things to come: in a vision; when awake, either by day or by night, representing objects to the bodily sight; as the almond tree rod, and the boiling pot, to Jeremiah, (<240111>Jeremiah 1:11-13); the visions of the chariots, (<262324>Ezekiel 23:24 26:7,10), and dry bones, (<263701>Ezekiel 37:1-14), to Ezekiel, and such as were shown to Amos, (<300701>Amos 7:1-9:15): or to the mind by night, as if really discerned by the senses; as the visions of the man riding on a red horse, (<380108>Zechariah 1:8), and of the four horns, (<380118>Zechariah 1:18), and four carpenters, (<380120>Zechariah 1:20), with several others shown to Zechariah: [and] will speak unto him in a dream; as he had done to Jacob, (<013111>Genesis 31:11), and as he did afterwards to Daniel, (<270701>Daniel 7:1), and many others.
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