And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Moses endured forty years in the wilderness, his mind beset by doubt, it was a hard exchange from Egypt's comfort to feeding sheep in the desert. Yet he attempted nothing, raised no tumults, but kept his shepherd's office faithfully while waiting on the Lord's leisure, and at length the angel appeared to him.
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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
Those forty years in Midian made Moses eighty years old when the Lord appeared to him. Horeb and Sinai are the same mountain called by two names; from the bramble bushes that grew on it, the mountain took its name Sinai, and the bush itself is called Seneh in Hebrew.
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