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him from leading his people into the promised 

 land, was peculiarly mortifying; and afforded 

 an exemplary lesson to all Israel of the neces- 

 sity of obedience, faith, and humility, to secure 

 the favour of God. How severely Moses felt 

 this infliction, and how meekly he bore it, 

 appears from his humble, and it would seem 

 repeated supplications to the Lord to reverse 

 the sentence ; but it was reserved for a greater 

 than Moses to teach His disciples how to pray 

 on such an occasion : ' O my Father, if it be 

 possible, let this cup pass from me : nevertheless, 

 not as I will, but as Thou wilt.' 



" I think I have noticed to you, on a former 

 Sunday, the perfect candour of Moses ; in the 

 present case it is again conspicuous. His 

 offence, his punishment, and his entreaties are 

 frequently alluded to in the Pentateuch, but are 

 totally omitted by Josephus. In the original 

 narrative they are mentioned as if necessary 

 to explain the whole truth they are expressed 

 in sorrow and humiliation ; and the ingenu- 

 ousness with which both the crime and the 

 disgrace are recorded by himself, form a striking 

 contrast with the suppression of those facts by 

 that cautious historian in describing the character 

 of the great legislator, to whom he looked up 

 with so much reverence." 15 



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