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This is recorded, Psalms 95:10, and remembered by the apostle, Hebrews 3:8,9, and to be admired through all ages, that God should be so patient, or a people could be so perverse. Some instead of etropoforhsen, read etrofoforhsen, there being but one letter difference, (and such as are usually changed into one another), and then it speaks God's providing for this people all that while, and carrying them as in his bosom, as a nurse bears the sucking child, Numbers 11:12 Deuteronomy 1:31; or as an eagle beareth her young ones on her wings, Deuteronomy 32:11,12. But it seems God did not bear with their fathers, but destroyed them in the wilderness, 1 Corinthians 10:5. First, God bare long with those that perished. Secondly, The succeeding generation took not that warning which did become them, but followed their fathers steps; and whilst one generation was wearing away, and another coming, this space of forty years was spent, through the abundant compassion of God towards them, who did not consume them, as they tempted him to do, in a moment.