33. It seems a small sin compared with that of others, but then it was the
sin of Moses, the Lord’s chosen servant, who had seen and known so much of the
Lord, and therefore it could not be passed by. He did not speak blasphemously,
or falsely, but only hastily and without care; but this is a serious fault in a
lawgiver, and especially in one who speaks for God. This passage is to our mind
one of the most terrible in the Bible. Truly we serve a jealous God. Yet he is
not a hard master, or austere; we must not think so, but we must the rather be
jealous of ourselves, and watch that we live the more carefully, and speak the
more advisedly, because we serve such a Lord. We ought also to be very careful
how we treat the ministers of the Gospel, lest by provoking their spirit we
should drive them into any unseemly behavior which should bring upon them the
chastisement of the Lord. Little do a grumbling, quarrelsome people dream of
the perils in which they involve their pastors by their untoward behavior.
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