And the LORD said unto Moses,
I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
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Cassiodorus Senator
AD 585
So these sinners undergo a contrary experience: their necks which they fatally raised against the Lord are subjected to his sweet yoke with the humility which brings salvation. We recall that this often befell persecutors, so that having earlier maintained their idols by the most sacrilegious compulsion, they became proclaimers of our most holy religion.
And again. The Septuagint omit this verse. Moses, at the first intimation of the people's sin, fell prostrate before the Lord, to sue for pardon, and pleaded the natural weakness of an ungovernable multitude, in order to extenuate their fault. This God admits.
I see But while he seems bent on punishing them, to try his servant, he encourages him inwardly to pray with fervour. (Salien.)
