Numbers 12:3 (Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which [were] upon the face of the earth.)
Ver. 3. Now the man Moses was very meek.] So free from passions, if Josephus may be believed, that he knew no such thing in his own soul; he only knew the names of such things, and saw them in others, rather than in himselfi Of Beza it is said, Quod sine felle vixerit, that he was without gall or guile, and he lived to a great age as Moses did, and as Mr Dod did. Their meekness preserved them.
Above all the men.] And yet Moses could be angry enough when there was cause. Exodus 11:8 ; Exo 16:20 Lev 10:16 Numbers 16:15 , &c. Yea, how blessedly blown up was he with a zeal for God, Exo 32:19 and what a stomach shows he in that case! Nazianzen saith of Athanasius, that he was magnes et adamas, a loadstone in his sweet gentle drawing nature, and yet an adamant in his resolute stout carriage against those that were evil. Some a are of opinion that this verse was added by Joshua or Esdras, as also those three verses. Numbers 21:14,15 ; Num 21:27
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