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| 1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken. |
Two tables of stone – Representing that The Christ is commissioned to prepare the hearts of mankind for the rewriting of the divine law. R5299:1
Symbolized the preparation of mankind through the justification accomplished by Christ. R2196:4
And I will write -Typifyingthe work of The Christ during the Millennial age; the engraving of the law of God in the very hearts of all the willing. R2196:4
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| 2 And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to mount Sinai, and stand there before me on the top of the mountain. |
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| 3 And let no man go up with thee, neither shall any man be seen on all the mountain; neither shall sheep and oxen feed in front of that mountain. |
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| 4 And he hewed two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. |
Hewed two tables – Representing that The Christ is commissioned to prepare the hearts of mankind for the rewriting of the divine law. R5299:1
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| 5 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. |
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| 6 And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah *God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth, |
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| 7 keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation2. |
By no means clear – God can never pardon sin. The word "pardon" does not occur in the New Testament, and in the Old should be translated "forgive." R387:1
To have pardoned Adam, God would have made of himself a liar. R386:6
The righteousness of God's law demanded a satisfaction for the claims of justice-- a life for a life. R1917:1
Thus God's law demanded a ransom. R709:5
But he has provided a way in which he can be just and yet justify. (Rom. 3:26). HG308:2
Showing God's justice. Yet he was so loving that he gave his only begotten son to redeem us from death. R391:5
While justice was reading to Adam the penalty of the broken law, love was telling him that there would be a deliverance. R586:5
Unto the third and ... fourth – Contrary to Darwin. Deviations from the species prototype are corrected in the course of three generations-N.Y. Times. R4859:6*
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| 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped, |
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| 9 and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance! |
A stiffnecked people – Like an ox, difficult to turn about. R5387:3
Their stubbornness will eventually show the mercy of God through his dealing with them. OV120:4
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| 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels that have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people in the midst of which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for a terrible thing it shall be that I will do with thee. |
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| 11 Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. |
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| 12 Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee; |
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| 13 but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs. |
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| 14 For thou shalt worship no other *God; for Jehovah--Jealous is his name--is a jealous *God; |
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| 15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice, |
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| 16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. |
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| 17 --Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods. |
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| 18 --The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. |
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| 19 --All that openeth the womb is mine; and all the cattle that is born a male, the firstling of ox and sheep. |
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| 20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou ransom it not, then shalt thou break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt ransom; and none shall appear before me empty. |
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| 21 --Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. |
On the seventh day – Type of the Millennial age. R5071:6; B40; Q607:4
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| 22 --And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. |
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| 23 Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. |
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| 24 For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year. |
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| 25 --Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left over night until the morning. |
With leaven – Symbol of corruption, sin. R5192:4; F464; T98
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| 26 --The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. |
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| 27 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel. |
A covenant with thee – God's covenant with Israel made at Sinai and the course of that people under the dominion of that Law are represented by the First Ascending Passage of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
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| 28 --And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. --And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words. |
With the LORD – Supernaturally strengthened to behold his glory. B131
Covenant, the ten – The Law written upon tables of stone represented that covenant because every blessing under that covenant was made dependant upon absolute obedience to that Law. R1724:4
It served them well as a servant to bring them to Christ. R1724:5
The Ten Commandments were a part of the Law covenant, supplanted by the New covenant-"he is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." (Heb. 8:6) R1732:1
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| 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai--and the two tables of testimony were in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain--that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone through his talking with him. |
Moses came down – A type of the greater lawgiver and Mediator of the New covenant, Christ, Head and Body, who shall come forth to bless the world. B134; D630; R5035:4
With the two tables – Representing the New covenant, of which Christ is the Mediator. D631; B134
His face shone – Typifying the spiritual glory of The Christ. B134; D631
The "figure" was "glorious"; the reality "excelleth" in glory. (2 Cor. 3:10). R1323:2*
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| 30 And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. |
They were afraid – If unable to view this reflected glory, how could natural man ever expect to see him who is now "the express image of the Father's person"? (Heb. 1:3) B131
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| 31 And Moses called to them; and they turned to him, --Aaron and all the principal men of the assembly; and Moses talked with them. |
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| 32 And afterwards, all the children of Israel came near; and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on mount Sinai. |
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| 33 And Moses ended speaking with them; and he had put on his face a veil. |
A vail on his face – Typical of the blindness of their hearts. R1323:4*
Typifies the earthly phase of the Kingdom, the "princes in all the earth" through whom the Christ will speak to the people, the glory being hidden. D630; R5035:4, R5299:2, R4310:6
Illustrating that when the glory of the Lord is revealed the glory of the spiritual persons cannot be seen. They will be under cover. B134; R4366:5
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| 34 And when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded. |
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| 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him. |
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