Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own country.
Moses was both lawgiver and judge, a type of Christ Himself. He sat composed and weighed each case, explaining God's statutes faithfully to people who came seeking His mind on hard matters. Happy were they to have such a certain oracle; we often wish for the same.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 18:13-27
And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land. (l) Read .
And Moses let his father-in-law depart - But if this be the same transaction with that mentioned Num 10:29, etc., we find that it was with great reluctance that Moses permitted so able a counsellor to leave him; for, having the highest opinion of his judgment, experience, and discretion, he pressed him to stay with them, that he might be instead of eyes to them in the desert.