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Scott's Reference Library
Exodus 34:29 through Exodus 34:35 (NIV)
29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the
Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he
had spoken with the LORD. 30When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his
face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. 31But Moses called to
them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he
spoke to them. 32Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them
all the commands the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
33When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. 34But
whenever he entered the LORD’S presence to speak with him, he removed the veil
until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been
commanded, 35they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil
back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 28-35
Near and spiritual communion with God improves the graces of a renewed and holy
character. Serious godliness puts a lustre upon a man’s countenance, such as
commands esteem and affection. The vail which Moses put on, marked the obscurity
of that dispensation, compared with the gospel dispensation of the New
Testament. It was also an emblem of the natural vail on the hearts of men
respecting spiritual things. Also the vail that was and is upon the nation of
Israel, which can only be taken away by the Spirit of the Lord showing to them
Christ, as the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Fear and unbelief would put the vail before us, they would hinder our free
approach to the mercy-seat above. We should spread our wants, temporal and
spiritual, fully before our heavenly Father; we should tell him our hinderances,
struggles, trails, and temptations; we should acknowledge our offences.