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…

For no inferior, nor an equal authority, can abolish or alter that which is already appointed, so as to give satisfaction to the consciences of men in obedience to such alterations. And therefore because there arose not a Prophet like to Moses under the Old Testament, there coul…

Quest. 1. From where had the Apostle this story, the Scriptures making no mention of it? The substance of it is in Scripture, we read (Deuteronomy 34:6) that the body of Moses was secretly buried by the Lord; but now for the circumstances of it, he might receive them by divine r…

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…

But Pehor was a Moabite mountain: Numbers 23:28, "Balak led Balaam to the summit of Pehor." On that mountain a sacred shrine had been built, which was called Beth-pehor; in Deuteronomy 34:6, Moses is said to be buried "in the valley in the land of the Moabites, over against Beth…

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).…

§ 67 Again, all the miracles of Moses ended with his life. The Jews indeed some of them tell us a company of foolish stories about his death, which as their manner is, they would fix on those words (Deuteronomy 34:5), and Moses died [in non-Latin alphabet], by the mouth or word…

It was in the prophetical office that the prophet foretold was to be like to Moses: it is a law-giver, one that should institute new ordinances of worship by the authority of God for the use and observance of the whole church, as Moses did; one that should reveal the whole will…

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…

There is a temper of solid walkers by faith, enjoying much peace, yet not acquainted with great spring tides, nor with extreme low ebbs, of the outlettings of the holy Ghost. I speak not of Moses as a prophet, who saw God, and whom the Lord knew face to face (Deuteronomy 34:10).…

2. Moses was the meekest man on the earth, and much of the actings of the spirit were on his soul, and he had the most near manifestations of God. The Lord spake to him mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, he beheld the similitude of the Lord (Numbers 12:8;…

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:…

Besides Gods way of answering Moses, and answering by Vrim were different things, as the Rabbins and other learned men who write of those things show, Gods answering Moses and giving him Lawes and Commandements being by voice, but answering by Vrim being in an other way by behol…

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…