Numbers 12:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Mouth

Dark speeches

Similitude

Were ye

Jude 1:8

General references

Genesis 17:22

Deuteronomy 5:4

Bible References

Mouth

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

And Jehovah spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. And he returned to the camp; but his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from within the tent.

And there arose no prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah had known face to face;

who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honour and eternal might. Amen.

Dark speeches

I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,

And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

Similitude

and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were work of transparent sapphire, and as it were the form of heaven for clearness.

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),

To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?

To whom will ye liken me and make me equal, or compare me, that we may be like?

No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father, and henceforth ye know him and have seen him.

If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

But we all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.

who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

Were ye

And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.

General references

And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

Face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire Jehovah spoke with you