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To fall into sin quickly after we have renewed our covenants with God, or received special mercy from him, is very provoking.
4. He tells him particularly what they had done: They have made a calf, and worshipped it. Note, Those sins which are concealed from our governors are naked and open before God. He sees that which they cannot discover, nor is any of the wickedness in the world hidden from him. We could not bear to see the thousandth part of that provocation which God sees every day and yet keeps silence.
5. He seems to disown them, in saying to Moses, They are thy people whom thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt; as if he had said, "I will not own any relation to them, or concern for them; let it never be said that they are my people, or that I brought them out of Egypt." Note, Those that corrupt themselves not only shame themselves, but even make God himself ashamed of them and of his kindness to them.
6. He sends him down to them with all speed: Go, get thee down. He must break off even his communion with God to go and do his duty as a magistrate among the people; so must Joshua, Ex 7:10. Every thing is beautiful in its season.
9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against
them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
He expresses his displeasure against Israel for this sin, and the determination of his justice to cut them off, Ex 32:9,10.
1. He gives this people their true character: "It is a stiff-necked people, unapt to come under the yoke of the divine law, and governed as it were by a spirit of contradiction, averse to all good and prone to evil, obstinate against the