Teks -- Numbers 16:46 (NET)

16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord– the plague has begun!”

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Wesley: Num 16:46 - Incense

Which was a sign of intercession, and was to be accompanied with it.

Wesley: Num 16:46 - Go unto the congregation

He went with the incense, to stir up the people to repentance and prayer, to prevent their utter ruin. This he might do upon this extraordinary occasion, having God's command for his warrant, though ordinarily incense was to be offered only in the tabernacle.

Clarke: Num 16:46 - The plague is begun

The plague is begun - God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond all dispute; his hand, and his alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that this should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that those men who had perished were not the people of the Lord; and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

Calvin: Num 16:46 - And Moses said unto Aaron

46.And Moses said unto Aaron The expiation of so great a sin did not indeed depend on the incense-offering, nor are we to imagine that God is appeased by the savor of frankincense; but thus was a symbol set before this grosshearted people, whereby they might be alike aroused to repentance and faith; for however insensible they might be in their rebellion, yet the dignity of the priesthood was so conspicuous in the censer, that they ought to have been awakened by it to reverence. For who would not view his impiety with horror, when he is made conscious of having despised and violated that sanctity wherein the Divine power displays itself for life or death? The sight of the censer might have justly availed to subdue their hardness of heart, so that at last they might begin to condemn and detest their unrighteous act. The second warning which it gave them was no less profitable, i.e., that they might perceive that God was only propitiated towards them by virtue of a mediator; but., in so far as the actual state of things allowed, the visible type directed them to the absent Savior. Since, however, men corrupt and obscure the truth by their fond inventions, His majesty is asserted by the Divine institution of sacrifice. Whilst Aaron, the typical priest, stands forth, until the true, and only, and perpetual Mediator shall be revealed.

The verb כפר , caphar, properly signifies, as I have said elsewhere, to reconcile God to men through the medium of an expiation (piaculum;) but, since here it refers to the people, the sense of Moses is rightly expressed by a single word, as one may say, to purge, or lustrate from pollution.

TSK: Num 16:46 - from off // and put // an atonement // there is wrath // the plague is begun

from off : Lev 9:24, Lev 10:1, Lev 16:12, Lev 16:13; Isa 6:6, Isa 6:7; Rom 5:9, Rom 5:10; Heb 7:25-27, Heb 9:25, Heb 9:26; Rev 8:3-5

and put : Psa 141:2; Mal 1:11

an atonement : Exo 30:7-10; Lev 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1, 1Jo 2:2

there is wrath : Num 1:53, Num 8:19, Num 11:33, Num 18:5; Lev 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Psa 106:29

the plague is begun : God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not ""the people of the Lord,""and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

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Poole: Num 16:46 - Put on incense // Go quickly unto the congregation // The plague is begun

Put on incense which was a sign of intercession, Psa 141:2 , and was to be accompanied with it, Luk 1:9,10 .

Go quickly unto the congregation with the incense, to stir up the people to repentance and prayer to prevent their utter ruin. This he might do upon this extraordinary occasion, having God’ s command for his warrant, though ordinarily incense was to be offered only in the tabernacle.

The plague is begun in cutting off the people by a sudden and miraculous stroke.

Haydock: Num 16:46 - Take

Take. Moses was inspired by God, on this extraordinary occasion, to pass over the common rules, which forbade the high priest to offer incense any where but in the tabernacle, and never to appear among the dead. (Calmet)

Gill: Num 16:46 - And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer // and put fire therein from off the altar // and put on incense // and go quickly unto the congregation // and make an atonement for them // for there is wrath gone out from the Lord // the plague is begun

And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer,.... Which lay in the tabernacle:

and put fire therein from off the altar; the altar of burnt offering, from whence fire only was to be taken for burning incense; and lest Aaron in his hurry should forget to take it from thence, but elsewhere, and offer strange fire as his sons had done, Moses expresses the place from whence he should take it:

and put on incense: upon the fire, in the censer, which he was to do when he came into the camp, and not as soon as he took the fire from the altar: the censer with fire in it he carried in one hand, and the incense in the other; and when he was in the midst of the congregation, he put the incense on the fire, and burnt it, as appears from Num 16:47, this was an emblem of prayer, and a figure of the intercession and mediation of Christ, Psa 141:2,

and go quickly unto the congregation; the case required haste:

and make an atonement for them; which was usually done by the sacrifice of a sin or trespass offering, but now there was no time for that, and therefore incense, which was of quicker dispatch, was used for that purpose instead of it:

for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; some token of it, some disease was inflicted, which Moses had information of from the Lord, and therefore expressly says:

the plague is begun; a pestilence was sent among the people.