And Moses said, Wherefore do ye now transgress? He rejects this feigned penitence, by which the sinner tries all sorts of evasions,^78…

And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the
commandment of the Lord ?
&c.] Which was …

Some of the Israelites were now earnest to go forward toward Canaan. But it came too late. If people would only be as earnest for heaven while thei…