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to an angel would not be so provoking as those given to the shechinah, or divine Majesty itself.
Note, The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.
3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in
the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
Here is, the message which God sent by Moses to the children of Israel, signifying the continuance of the displeasure against them, and the bad terms they yet stood upon with God. This he must let them know for their further mortification.
He applies to them a mortifying name, by giving them their just character--a stiff-necked people, Ex 33:3,5. "Go," says God to Moses, "go and tell them that they are so." He that knows them better than they know themselves says so of them. God would have brought them under the yoke of his law, and into the bond of his covenant, but their necks were too stiff to bow to them. God would have cured them of their corrupt and crooked dispositions, and have set them straight; but they were wilful and obstinate, and hated to be reformed, and would not have God to reign over them. Note, God judges of men by the temper of their minds. We know what man does; God knows what he is: we know what proceeds from man; God knows what is in man, and nothing is more displeasing to him than stiff-neckedness, as nothing in children is more offensive to their parents and teachers than stubbornness.
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and
no man did put on him his ornaments.
The people's melancholy reception of this message; it was evil tidings to them to hear that they should not have God's special presence with them, and therefore,