Christ's 'delights were with the sons of men.' He lived among them, and all men 'know his sepulchre to this day.'
Moses was solitary as God's servant in life and death, and oblivion covered his mountain grave. An endured cross, an empty grave, an occupied throne, are as the threefold cord on which all our hopes hang. The other forever draws hearts and memories, because in it was wrought out the victory in which all our hopes are rooted. The one faded from men's memory because it was nothing to any man no impulses, nor hopes, nor gifts, could come from it. The one was hidden and solitary, as teaching the loneliness and mystery of death the other revealed light in the darkness, and companionship in the loneliness. Lofty designs must close in like effects Loftily lying, Leave him - still loftier than the world suspects,Ĭontrast that grave with the sepulchre in the garden where Jesus lay, close by a city wall, guarded by foes, haunted by troops of weeping friends, visited by a great light of angel faces. Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Here, - here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, The lessons of that solitary death and unknown tomb may best be learned by contrast with another death and another grave - those of the Leader of the New Covenant, the Law-giver and Deliverer from a worse bondage, and Guide into a better Canaan, the Son who was faithful over His own house, as Moses was 'faithful in all his house, as a servant.' That lonely and forgotten grave among the savage cliffs was in keeping with the whole character and work of him who lay there. He 'died there,' in that dreary solitude, and in some cleft he was buried, and no man knows where. How the silent congregation must have watched, as, alone, with 'natural strength unabated,' he breasted the mountain, and went up to be seen no more! With dignified reticence our chapter tells us no details. He had lived alone with God, and it was fitting that alone with God he should die. xxxiv.5, 6.Ī fitting end to such a life! The great law-giver and leader had been all his days a lonely man and now, surrounded by a new generation, and all the old familiar faces vanished, he is more solitary than ever. but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.' - DEUT.
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab. Expositions of Holy Scripture - Alexander Maclaren'So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.6.
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