{"id":3857,"date":"2022-09-24T00:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-625\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T00:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:23:33","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-625\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 6:25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><P> upon thee, i.e. Smile upon thee: this is opposed to the hiding of his face, and to the covering himself or his face with a cloud; and it is explained by the following words, <\/P> <P><B>be gracious unto thee.<\/B> Others expound it of illumination or direction, and the revelation of himself and of his will to them. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>The Lord make his face to shine upon thee<\/strong>,&#8230;. Cause himself, the sun of righteousness, to arise and shine upon them, and give both spiritual light and heat unto them; grant his gracious presence, the manifestations of himself, communion with him, clearer discoveries of his love, of interest in him, and an increase of spiritual light and knowledge of his Gospel, and the truths of it, and of his mind and will:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and be gracious unto thee<\/strong>; by granting larger measures of grace out of his fulness, by leading more abundantly into it, and making fresh and frequent applications of it; grace is often wished for from Christ as well as from the Father.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 25<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Make his face shine <\/strong> The Targum adds, &ldquo;when occupied in the law, and reveal to thee its secrets.&rdquo; Anthropomorphic descriptions of God and boldness of metaphor are characteristic of Hebrew poetry. &ldquo;If the light of the sun is sweet and pleasant to behold, the light of the divine countenance, the everlasting light, is the sum of all delight.&rdquo; <em> Baumgarten. <\/em> Stripped of figure, the prayer is that Jehovah may deal kindly with Israel, as is indicated in the following part of the parallelism. <\/p>\n<p><strong> And be gracious unto thee <\/strong> It is a mere play of the fancy to make sharp distinctions between the blessings invoked in these verses. Thus Luther refers the first blessing to bodily good, the second to the spiritual nature and soul, and the third to the same with a desire for final victory over the cross, death, the devil, the world, and the flesh.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>The LORD = Jehovah the Son, the channel of all blessing, Eph 1:3. Compare Act 3:26. Heb 10:10. <\/p>\n<p>face: put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for whole Person. App-6. Also Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>The Lord: Psa 21:6, Psa 31:16, Psa 67:1, Psa 80:1-3, Psa 80:7, Psa 80:19, Psa 119:135, Dan 9:17 <\/p>\n<p>gracious: Gen 43:29, Exo 33:19, Mal 1:9, Joh 1:17 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Job 33:26 &#8211; and he shall Psa 80:3 &#8211; cause<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: upon thee, i.e. Smile upon thee: this is opposed to the hiding of his face, and to the covering himself or his face with a cloud; and it is explained by the following words, be gracious unto thee. Others expound it of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-625\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 6:25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}