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Updated: May 23, 2025
'Moses and Aaron among his priests. ... Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. The penalty of a forgiven sin is never hard to bear, and the penalty of a forgiven sin is very often punctually and mercifully exacted.
The Psalmist simply declares that they are both there, and puts in no such fine distinction as is represented by the words 'though, or 'but, or 'yet. To me it seems a great deal more eloquent in its simplicity and reticence that he should say, 'Thou forgavest them and tookest vengeance, than that he should say 'Thou forgavest them though Thou tookest vengeance.
Yea, sometimes he would be quite gone down, and then ere a while he would rise up again half dead." My brethren, all my brethren, be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. Thou, O God, wast a God that forgavest them, but Thou tookest vengeance on their inventions.
Moses: "O Lord of the world! How often did Israel sin before Thee, and when I begged and implored mercy for them, Thou forgavest them, but me Thou wilt not forgive! For my sake Thou forgavest the sins of sixty myriads, and not thou wilt not forgive my sin?"
"and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin." Mark, nothing comes in betwixt confession and forgiveness of sin, Psalm xxxii. 5; nothing of works of righteousness, nothing of legal amendments, nothing but an outcry for mercy; and that act is so far off from lessening the offence, that it greatly heightens and aggravates it. That is the first reason.
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them. He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them. Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
Let Thy servant depart in peace; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, and then we may go to see it better in that world where we shall all, if we attain thither, be 'satisfied' when we 'awake in His likeness. 'Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. PSALM xcix. 8.
Thou wast a God that forgavest them, and Thou tookest vengeance of their doings. Moses dies on Pisgah, Aaron is stripped of his priestly robes by his brother's hand and left alone amongst the clouds and the eagles, on the solitary summit of the mountain, and yet Moses and Aaron knew themselves forgiven the sins for which they died those lonely deaths.
Therefore it is that another says, 'While I held my sins my bones waxed old through my daily complaining; and the next moment 'I said I will confess my sins unto the Lord, and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Therefore it is that again another says, 'Thou holdest mine eyes waking. I am so feeble that I cannot speak.
Forgiveness does not lie in letting him off the punishment; but forgiveness lies in the flowing to the child, uninterrupted, of the love of the parent heart, and that is God's forgiveness. Penalties, some of them, remain thank God for it! 'Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions, and the chastisement was part of the sign of the forgiveness.
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