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The Danger of Selective Memory
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon and John Gill highlight how the Israelites romanticized their past. They remembered the 'fleshpots' but conveniently forgot the 'whips' and 'iron bondage' of slavery. This serves as a powerful reminder that present discomfort can distort our memory, causing us to undervalue God's past deliverance and become ungrateful.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 16:3
18th Century
Theologian
By the hand of the Lord - This evidently refers to the plagues, especially the last, in Egypt: the death which befell the Egyptians appeared…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 16:3
19th Century
Bishop
Would to God we had died. — In Hebrew, Would that we had died. There is no mention of “God.”
By the hand o…
Charles Spurgeon
On Exodus 16:3
19th Century
Preacher
They forgot all about the brick-making, and the whips, and the iron bondage, and they remembered nothing but the fleshpots of Egypt. Alas! How soon…
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John Gill
On Exodus 16:3
17th Century
Pastor
And the children of Israel said unto them
They not only inwardly murmured, and privately complained among themselves…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 16:1–12
17th Century
Minister
The provisions of Israel, brought from Egypt, were spent by the middle of the second month, and they murmured. It is nothing new for the greatest k…