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MOSES came now boldly to the multitude, and informed them that God
was moved at their abuse of him, and would inflict punishment upon them,
not indeed such as they deserved for their sins, but such as parents inflict
on their children, in order to their correction. For, he said, that when
he was in the tabernacle, and was bewailing with ears that destruction
which was coming upon them God put him in mind what things he had done
for them, and what benefits they had received from him, and yet how ungrateful
they had been to him that just now they had been induced, through the timorousness
of the spies, to think that their words were truer than his own promise
to them; and that on this account, though he would not indeed destroy them
all, nor utterly exterminate their nation, which he had honored more than
any other part of mankind, yet he would not permit them to take possession
of the land of Canaan, nor enjoy its happiness; but would make them wander
in the wilderness, and live without a fixed habitation, and without a city,
for forty years together, as a punishment for this their transgression;
but that he had promised to give that land to our children, and that he
would make them the possessors of those good things which, by your ungoverned
passions, you have deprived yourselves of.
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