16. They envied Moses also in the camp. Though
to him as the Lord’s chosen instrument they owed everything they grudged him
the authority which it was needful that he should exercise for their good. Some
were more openly rebellious than others, and became leaders of the mutiny, but
a spirit of dissatisfaction was general, and therefore the whole nation is
charged with it. Who can hope to escape envy when the meekest of men was
subject to it? And Aaron the saint of the Lord.
By divine choice Aaron was set apart to be holiness unto the Lord, and instead
of thanking God that he had favored them with a high priest by whose
intercession their prayers would be presented, they railed at the divine
election, and quarreled with the man who was to offer sacrifice for them. Thus
neither church nor state was ordered aright for them; they would snatch from
Moses his scepter, and from Aaron his miter. It is the mark of bad men that
they are envious of the good, and spiteful against their best benefactors.
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