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 have said it unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen -- O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them, -- and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

And Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses face unto face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and he hath turned back unto the camp, and his minister Joshua, son of Nun, a youth, departeth not out of the tent.

And there hath not arisen a prophet any more in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah hath known face unto face,

who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom is honour and might age-during! Amen.

Dark speeches

I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,

And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, 'I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

Similitude

and they see the God of Israel, and under His feet is as the white work of the sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity;

and He saith, 'I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'

And Jehovah cometh down in a cloud, and stationeth Himself with him there, and calleth in the Name of Jehovah,

and ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah's speaking unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?

To whom do ye liken Me, and make equal? And compare Me, that we may be like?

God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.

if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

Were ye

and Aaron seeth -- all the sons of Israel also -- Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him.

'He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

General references

and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;