Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 16:28

28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works , for I have not done them of mine own mind .

To wit, which I have done, and for which I am traduced by these and such like wicked men, as the bringing of the people out of Egypt; the conducting of them through and the keeping of them so long in the wilderness; the exercising of power and authority among and over them; giving of laws to them, as about other things, so concerning the Priesthood, which is the ground of the present quarrel; and, that which vexeth them most, that when they were upon the borders of Canaan and ready to enter in, I should cause them to go back into this vast howling wilderness and fix them there for forty years.

By pretending or usurping an authority which God gave me not, by feigning words or messages from God to establish my own inventions, and to comply with my own will or lust or interest, as I am now accused to have done. For this phrase see Numb. 24. 13. Ezek. 13. 2.

Marginal references: Gr. of my self. chap. 24. 13. Josh. 5. 19, 30. and 8. 28. and 12. 49.