Three points in reference to Moses deserve attention: (i) His work, (ii) His character, (iii) His office. (i) _His work._ “The Hebrew lawgiver was a man who, considered merely in an historical light, without any reference to his Divine inspiration, has exercised a more extensive and permanent influence over the destinies of his own nation and mankind at large, than any other individual recorded in the annals of the world.... To his own nation he was chieftain, historian, poet, lawgiver. He was more than all these, he was the founder of their civil existence. Other founders of republics and distinguished legislators have been, like Numa, already at the head of a settled and organized community; or have been voluntarily invested with authority, like Lycurgus and Solon, by a people suffering the inconvenience of anarchy. Moses had first to form his own people, to lead them out of captivity, to train them for forty years in the desert, and bestow on them a country of their own, before he could create his commonwealth.” (ii) _His character._ “The word _meekness_ (Num. xii. 3) which is used in Scripture in reference to his personal character ‘represents what we should now designate by the word _disinterested_.’ All that is told of him indicates a withdrawal of himself, a preference of the cause of his own nation to his own interests, which makes him the most complete example of Jewish patriotism.” He joins his countrymen in their degrading servitude (Ex. ii. 11; v. 4); he forgets himself to avenge their wrongs (Ex. iv. 13). He wishes that not he only, but all the nation were gifted alike: _Enviest thou for my sake?_ (Num. xi. 29.) When the offer is made that the people should be destroyed, and that he should be made a great nation (Ex. xxxii. 10), he prays that they may be forgiven――_if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written_ (Ex. xxxii. 32). Even when excluded from realizing the hopes of a lifetime, his zeal for his people suffers no diminution. (iii) _His office._ While other prophets saw Jehovah only in visions and dreams, Moses spake with Him _mouth to mouth_, and was entrusted _with the whole household of God_ (Heb. iii. 2, 5). He was at once Deliverer, Lawgiver, Priest, Teacher, Leader, and Judge. His prophetic gift controlled, pervaded, inspired, and regulated all these functions, and he was thus an eminent type of a still greater PROPHET (Deut. xviii. 15, 18) to be raised up to Israel _from among their brethren_, (i) as a Redeemer of his people; (ii) as a Mediator between them and God; (iii) as a Teacher and Lawgiver; (iv) as receiving the fullest communications from God; (v) as the Revealer of a new name of God; (vi) as the founder of a new religious society. See Milman’s _History of the Jews_, I. 214; Article _Moses_, in Smith’s _Bib. Dict._; Kurtz’s _History of the Old Covenant_, III. 478; Davison _On Prophecy_, pp.