The age of Moses is twice recorded by him; once in this place, and again, Deuteronomy 34:7. And it is very remarkable, that as this period of 120 years, if divided into three parts, makes 40 each: so at everyone of these portions, he was placed by the LORD in a different situation. The first forty years of his life he lived in the court of Pharaoh; the second as a shepherd, when sojourning with his father-in-law the priest of Midian; and the third in the wilderness, as a leader of the LORD'S people. How strange and mixed are the events in the life, even of the most eminent of GOD'S servants! Who would have thought, that the poor child Pharaoh's daughter took up and nursed for her own, and who was apparently exposed to immediate danger, should have been in the very same moment, all along designed by the LORD for the deliverance of his people. But Reader! turn your thoughts from hence to an infinitely higher character than Moses, even Moses' LORD; and in the person of the LORD JESUS CHRIST behold, from equally slender appearances, the foundation of the sinner's hope. Who that beheld the SON of GOD, in the days of his appearing, when brought into the temple in substance of our flesh, would have conceived that this was He who was appointed of GOD, to deliver his people from sin and death by an everlasting salvation? None but those to whom, like Holy Simeon, the HOLY GHOST made him known, could have conceived such mighty things were hid under the humblest appearance. Luke 2:26-29.
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Deuteronomy 31:2
2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.