![]() ![]() He gives in detail the fact of the brightness of his own face, and how others were struck with it, and what he had to do in order to associate with them. Moses did not know, at the time, that his face was shining but he did know it afterwards, and he has here recorded it. The abstinence even from water renders the fast the more remarkable, and lifts it out of similarity to modern feats of fasting. God so sustained his servant, that his long and repeated fasting, during which he did not even drink water, did no harm to his physical constitution. Those eyes which had looked upon the glory of God were not likely to wax dim amid earthly scenes and that natural force which had endured the vision of the supernatural could well support the fatigues of the wilderness. He that could fast forty days would be a hard morsel for death. This man of eighty spent forty years more in guiding Israel, and in the end his eye had not dimmed, nor his natural force abated. The glory of the light of God upon his countenance may have been the reason why he remained so hale in after years of old age. Small attractiveness would naturally remain in a face which had endured so stern an ordeal but the Lord whom he served made his face brilliant with an unusual lustre. I will not assert or deny the third forty days but it is certain that, with a very slight interval, Moses fasted forty days, and then forty days more and it is probable that to these must be added a third forty. Moses had fasted forty days twice at the least and according to many competent authorities the tenth chapter of Deuteronomy seems to imply that he fasted forty days three times in quick succession. 29- 35.Ī FAST of forty days does not improve the appearance of a man’s countenance: he looks starved, wrinkled, old, haggard. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.”- Exodus xxxiv. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. And Moses called unto them and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone and they were afraid to come nigh him. “And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. ![]()
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