Deuteronomy 34

"You shall see your children's children." It was a great favor of God to Moses, that though he was a hundred and twenty years old he needed no spectacles, his eye was not dim, nor his natural strength abated (Deuteronomy 34:7). God threatened it as a curse to Eli, that there sho…

Your prayers may be answered, though the thing prayed for be withheld, yes, or though it should be given for a little while and then taken from you again. There are four ways God answers prayers: by giving the thing prayed for immediately (Daniel 9:23); by suspending the answer…

It is no loss nor trouble, but advantage to blessed and heavenly creatures, to be serviceable to their Redeemer's glory, though it be to come out of the other into this world. But concerning Moses the matter is more doubtful; we read that he died in Mount Nebo, and his body was…

He chose a high mountain, because of the fairer prospect, where the horizon might be as spacious as was possible, and the sight not hindered by any interposing object. God took Moses into Mount Pisgah, and showed him the land of Canaan (Deuteronomy 34:1). The Devil who affects t…

The seemingly-adverse combatant was Jacob's only assistant, and the conquered was the invincible Jehovah, and no other seconds or spectators, but the Infinite God and Worm Jacob. 4. Moses was a choice man of God, whom the Scripture characterizes as a nonsuch (Deuteronomy 34:10).…

The Egyptians mourned for Jacob seventy days (Genesis 50:3). The Israelites mourned for Moses thirty days (Deuteronomy 34:8), which custom of mourning thirty days for the dead, continued long after among the Jews: for Josephus reports, that when the Jews thought he had been kill…

3. It is a tree of long continuance, and keeps long green; hence (Psalm 92:12, 14) it is said of the righteous, they shall flourish like the palm tree; therefore (Joel 1:12) it is an evidence of great drought, when the palm tree withers. 4. They were looked on as most fit to be…

How should you quicken your pace, when you are within sight of the kingdom! He is a happy man, of whom it may be said, spiritually, as of Moses literally before his death (Deuteronomy 34:7): his eyes did not grow dim, and his natural force was not abated. So a Christian's force…

When Ahab was sick for Naboth's vineyard, meekness would soon have cured him. Moses, the meekest of men, not only lived to be old, but was then free from the infirmities of age; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated (Deuteronomy 34:7), which may be very much imputed…

For the third, It is thought of some to be the kinde visit of Iethro, visiting his son in law, and Israel in the wilderness; and besides, directing him in a way of government of the people, that he might not wear away himself, which was a great blessing to Israel at that time. A…

The various ways of special Revelation, by Dreams, Visions, Audible voices, Inspirations, with that peculiar one of the Lawgiver under the Old Testament, called [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] face to face, Exodus 33:11. Deuteronomy 34:10: and [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Numbers 11:…

Christ gave the honor of supremacy to Peter: Peter sat at Rome: therefore he there placed the see of Supremacy. By this reason, the Israelites in old times might have set the seat of Supremacy in the desert, where Moses the chief Teacher and Prince of Prophets executed his minis…