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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE BURNING BUSH. THE LORD JESUS IN IT. OOD's STMPATHT WITH SUFFERERS. CHARACTER OF PALESTINE. BORROWING JEWELS. WE have now the first and most impressive manifestation of God to Moses, as a call, and by way of a preface to that wonderful exodus, on the history of which we are now entering. There appears in a bush, that burned and was not consumed, a Being who is here called the angel of the Lord. I may state, that some of the most competent critics and divines have agreed that this ought to be rendered, the Angel-Lord. The Hebrew words are Melech- Te- hovah, which do not mean the angel of the Lord, but literally, Jehovah, the sent one. And hence it.has been thought that this was a manifestation of our blessed Lord in one of these forms in which he sometimes appeared before his incarnation, and that the angel of the Lord, wherever He appears throughout the whole of the Old Testament Scripture, was none other than God now manifest in the flesh. That the Being who appeared on this occasion was God, is obvious; because, whilst in the second verse it is said, The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; it is declared in the fourth verse, And when the Lord (Jehovah) saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said Moses, Moses; and he said, Here ami. And He said, Draw not nigh hitherj put oflf thyshoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover, He said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. It is, therefore, obvious that the being who appeared here was a Divine Being, ? the Melech- Yehovah, the Angel-Lord; and as the father is never spoken of as sent, he is none other ...
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