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(2.) The putting away of our sins is indispensably necessary to the removal of God's judgements. This is the voice of every rod, it calls to us to return to him that smites us.
4. The release of Moses thereupon: So he let him go; the distemper went off, the destroying angel withdrew, and all was well: only Zipporah cannot forget the fright she was in, but will unreasonably call Moses a bloody husband, because he obliged her to circumcise the child; and, upon this occasion (it is probable), he sent them back to his father-in-law, that they might not create him any further uneasiness. Note,
(1.) When we return to God in a way of duty he will return to us in a way of mercy; take away the cause, and the effect will cease.
(2.) We must resolve to bear it patiently, if our zeal for God and his institutions be misinterpreted and discouraged by some that should understand themselves, and us, and their duty, better, as David's zeal was misinterpreted by Michal; but if this be to be vile, if this be to be bloody, we must be yet more so.
(3.) When we have any special service to do for God we should remove as far from us as we can that which is likely to be our hindrance. Let the dead bury their dead, but follow thou me.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her
son, and cast it at his feet, and said, surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, a bloody husband thou art, because of
the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.
And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent
him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
How Aaron met him in love, Ex 4:27, 28.