And the LORD said unto him, This [is] the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see [it] with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Ver. 4. I have caused thee to see it.] By an extraordinary power, for in an ordinary way Moses could never have taken so large a prospect at once. Faith puts a man's head into heaven, and gives him a view of far better things; neither vision only, but fruition also, which Moses had not.