...figurative expressions, which was to be expected, if writing had been long and generally practised :—" Yet, now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ; and if...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." (Exod. xxxii. 32.) Signets, also, which had the name or cipher of the owner engraved on them, were...

...had made with their fathers ; and if they must be cast off, desiring himself to perish with them ; ' If thou wilt, forgive their sin ; and if not, blot...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written ;' how we are astonished at an instance of such invincible fortitude, fervent piety, unadulterated...

...with them. Moses wished for the sake of his people to be himself excluded from the land of promise ; " If thou wilt forgive their sin ; — and if not, blot...pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book." So...

...did not go on to bring that evil upon the Israelites, which he had conditionally threatened against them. XXXII. 32. Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their...with men doth so much depend upon it, I could be for thy sake contented even to be cast away myself fiom thee, at least to be wiped out of the catalogue...

...done. Again : God is more wise and just than either Moses or Paul. When, therefore, the former said, " Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book," the Lord said unto him, " Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." And when...

...the sin of the Israelites in making the golden calf, Moses interceded with God for them, and said, " Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin ; and if...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book."* The...

...and wonders ; but nothing made him so great, as those blessed words, which he spoke to God, saying: ' Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ; — and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book.' Such was also David, wherefore he said : ' Lo I have sinned, and I have done wickedly : but these sheep,...

...unto the LORD, and said, 32 Oh ! this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. cry, my King, and my God : For unto thec will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the mo 33 book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath 34 sinned against me,...

...importunate supplication : " Oh this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin ; and if...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written ;" out of the " book of the living," as David terms it. As if he had said — I would rather die with...

...has been perverted or misapprehended. § 1. Ex. 32 : 32. The literal rendering of the Hebrew is, " Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book." There is evidently an ellipsis after the word sin, to express which the older editions of the common...