When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
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.
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Commenting on Exodus 18:13-27
What Jethro called not good was not morally wicked, inquiring God's will and deciding justly between men is always good. But it was ruinous to Moses himself, exhausting his body and health beyond what any man should bear alone.
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The language here is too precise to doubt it: the statutes and laws were already in existence when Jethro visited. This passage stands out of chronological order in the text, yet it proves the law had been given before this moment.
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