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God's School of Humility
Commentators like Spurgeon and Calvin see Moses's 40 years as a shepherd not as wasted time, but as essential divine training. After 40 years in a palace, this period of solitude, hardship, and humble labor taught him patience, meekness, and contentment. This preparation was necessary to shape him into the shepherd-leader God's people needed.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 3:1
18th Century
Theologian
Jethro his father-in-law - Or “brother-in-law.” The word in the Hebrew is a word signifying a relative by marriage. When Moses arrived in Mi…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 3:1
19th Century
Bishop
Moses kept the flock. —The natural occupation of one who had thrown in his lot with the Midianites.
Jethro, his fat…
Charles Spurgeon
On Exodus 3:1
19th Century
Preacher
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the…
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John Calvin
On Exodus 3:1
16th Century
Theologian
Now Moses kept the flock. We have already said that he was occupied as a shepherd for a long time (namely, about forty years) before this …
John Gill
On Exodus 3:1
17th Century
Pastor
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the
priest of Midian
Who was ei…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 3:1–6
17th Century
Minister
The years of the life of Moses are divided into three periods of forty years: the first forty he spent as a prince in Pharaoh's court, the second a…