Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 13:18

18 And about the time of fourty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

This is Recorded, Psal. 95.10. and remembred by the Apostle, Heb. 3.8, 9. And to be admired through all Ages, that God should be so patient, or a People could be so perverse: some instead of [non-Latin text not transcribed], read [non-Latin text not transcribed], there being but one Letter difference, (and such as are usually changed into one another,) and then it speaks Gods providing for this People all that while, and carrying them as in his Bosom, as a Nurse bears the sucking Child, Numb. 11.12. Deut. 1.31. or as an Eagle beareth her young ones on her Wings, Deut. 32.11, 12. But it seems God did not bear with their Fathers, but destroyed them in the Wilderness, 1 Cor. 10.5. First, God bare long with those that perished. Secondly, The succeeding Generation took not that warning which did become them, but followed their Fathers steps; and whilst one Generation was wearing away, and another coming, this space of Forty years was spent, through the abundant compassion of God towards them; who did not consume them as they tempted him to do, in a moment.

Marginal references: Exod. 16.35.; 2 Mac. 7.27. according to the 70. And so Chrysost[illegible: 2 letters].