The Lord his God; emphatically so called: q.d. Moses had not lost his interest in God, though Israel had. Why doth thy wrath wax hot, so hot as to consume them utterly? For though he saw reason enough why God should be angry with them, yet he humbly expostulates with God whether it would be for his honour utterly to destroy them. Or this is a petition delivered in form of an interrogation or expostulation, as Matthew 8:29, compared with Luke 8:28. Against thy people, an ingenious retortion: q.d. They are not my people, as thou calledst them, Exodus 32:7, but thy people, which he proves in the following words.
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Exodus 32:11
11 And Moses besought the LORDa his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?