...day after Moses came down from the mountain, we find him saying to the Lord, Exodus, c. 32. v. 32. " If thou wilt forgive their sin ; and if not, blot...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." To which the Lord replies, " Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." Where...

...DELUSION," ETC. WHAT did Moses mean when he said to the Lord, " Yet now, it Thou wilt forgive their sins ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written?" (Exod. xxxii. 32). Not certainly that God should blot his name out of the book of PREDESTINATION OF...

...unto the Lord : ' Oh this people have sinned a great sin ; yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.' What amazing love ! Hear the prayer of Stephen ! — stoned by his enemies, and prostrated on the earth,...

...unto the Lord : " Oh this people have sinned a great sin ; yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." What amazing love ! Hear the prayer of Stephen ! — stoned by his enemies, and prostrated on the earth,...

...untimely death. (Exod. 32. 32,33; Psalm 69. 28.) When Moses says, in the passage referred to above, " Blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written," we are to understand the written book merely as a metaphorical expression, alluding to the records...

...refer to the book of life. Let us now inquire, II. What was the import of his request, when he said to God, " Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Here are two things requested, and both conditionally. Moses prays, if it were consistent with the...

...refer to the book of life. Let us now inquire, II. What was the import of his request, when he said to God, " Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Here are two things requested, and both conditionally. Moses prays, if it were consistent with the...

...destruction of those whom God appears to have cast out ; but rather do I hear a Moses, with agony, exclaim, " Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin ; and if not,...pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written !"1 Well do I hear the confession of a Paul, " For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ...

...prevalent, and to express his most ardent desire for their forgiveness, he prays again conditionally: " And if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." This was implicitly saying, " O Lord, since thou hast proposed to spare me and destroy thy people,...

...4.) But we have neither a Prophet like unto Moses, who boldly pleaded for our ancestors, saying, " Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and...pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written." (Exod. 32. 32.) Could we, as Jews, to whom were committed the oracles of God, be worse than a heathen!...