Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 32:11

11 And Moses besought the LORD his God , and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people , which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand?

Emphatically so called, q. d. Moses had not lost his interest in God, though Israel had.

So hot as to consume them utterly. For though he saw reason enough why God should be angry with them, yet he humbly expostulates with God whether it would be for his honour utterly to destroy them. Or this is a petition delivered in form of an interrogation or expostulation, as Mat. 8. 29. compare with Luk. 8. 28.

An ingenious retortion, q. d. They are not my people, as thou calledst them, ver. 7. but thy people, which he proves in the following words.

Marginal references: Deut. 9. 18. Ps. 106. 23.; Heb. th[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1 word] of the Lord.