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Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 13:30

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Numbers13:30

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses , and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it .

Together with Ioshua, as is manifest from Numb. 14. 6, 7, 30. but Caleb alone is here mentioned, possibly because he spake first and most, which he might better do, because he might be presumed to be more impartial than Ioshua, who being Moses his Minister might be thought to speak onely what he knew his master would like.

Which implies either that they had began to murmur, or that by their looks and carriages they discovered that grief and anger which boiled in their breasts.

Or, towards Moses, against whom they were incensed, as the man who had brought them into such sad circumstances.

Partly in moral probability, because we are one people united under one head, whereas they are divided into several nations and governments of differing counsels and interests and inclinations, and principally because of the assistance of the almighty God.

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