This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
Israel had God's miracles fresh before their eyes, His deliverance still in living memory, the Red Sea crossing, the wilderness guidance, yet they turned back to worship the very idols of the tyrants who had enslaved them. This is the utter perversity of it: stubbornness so hardened that no mercy, no sign, no faithful keeper could bend them to obedience.
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After forty years buried in obscurity, Moses, now eighty and seemingly past service, enters his calling through a vision in the wilderness. This teaches that God confines Himself to no place; He met Moses in a remote desert as readily as in a temple. The bush burning unconsumed prefigures Israel in Egypt's furnace, afflicted yet unbroken, and perhaps foreshadows Christ: divinity manifest in flesh.
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Commenting on Acts 7:30-41
Moses held singular honor, he stood in the church of God, true, but that church was in the wilderness. The angel who spoke to him at Sinai was the divine Word Himself, the second person in the Trinity, who spoke all ten commandments and delivered to Israel the living oracles of God.
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