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Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
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A Test of Faith, Not Reason
Commentators explain that God's remedy—looking at a bronze serpent—was intentionally illogical from a human standpoint. This was to ensure the Israelites knew their healing came purely from God's grace and power, not a natural cure. As John Calvin notes, it was a profound test of obedience, requiring them to trust God's word over their own senses and reason.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Make you a fiery serpent - that is, a serpent resembling in appearance the reptiles which attacked the people. The resemblance was …
19th Century
Anglican
Make you a fiery serpent.— The single Hebrew word which is here employed is saraph (a seraph), or burning on…
16th Century
Protestant
Make yourself a fiery serpent. Nothing would, at first sight, appear more unreasonable than that a bronze serpent should be made, the sigh…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said unto Moses Out of the cloud; or, it may be, Moses went into the sanctuary, and there prayed, and t…
The children of Israel were wearied by a long march around the land of Edom. They spoke discontentedly of what God had done for them and distrustfu…
