...original of this apostolic portrait rises before our mind's eye as we read ?—Surely that of Moses; " who was very meek, above all the men that were on the face of the earth." It is this striking interchange of precept and example; this analogy between action and principle ;...

...against himself, he let God alone with the cause, and only prayed for them ; for saith the text, " He was very meek above all the men that were on the face of the earth ;" Numb. xii. 3. Phineas's zeal for God did stay the plague, and was imputed to him for righteousness...

...against himself, he let God alone with the cause, and only prayed for them + for saith the text, " He was very meek above all the men that were on the face of the earth ;" Numb. xii. 3. Phinea&'s zeal for God did stay the plague, and was imputed to him for righteousness...

...contention between learning and meekness is seldom visible in any one person. Of Moses we thus read, Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth. The consciences of those that knew him appealed to, he will be acknowledged...

...this opposition and insult from Aaron and Miriam, is mentioned in the verse which follows the text. " Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth." Some suppose that this verse was not written by Moses, but added by Ezra,...

...remarked by some one of a later day, who in the original narrative has introduced the observation, " Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth."} Nor needed Moses take any part in the matter, for the Divine Voice, without...

...the author of the book of Numbers, because he says of himself — " that Moses was a very meek man, above all the men that were on the face of the earth." If he said this of himself, he was, you say, " a vain and arrogant coxcomb (such is your phrase !)...

...them, and in about the same space of time, after they had rejected him, they were destroyed. 35. — Moses was very meek, above all the men that were on the face of the earth — so was Christ. 86. — The people could not enter into the land of promise until Moses was dead...

...with him. But though, at a later day, some one has introduced into the original the observation : " Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth."* his authority was nevertheless vindicated. We are not told that he himself...

...white horse (gospel truth) from conquering to conquer. Moses was famed for meekness, as it is written," Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth " (Numbers xii. 3) ; but his meekness gave way when he cried out in anger,...