Note (return) — Rev. ANDREW LEE, A.M. (continued 2)

As to our sense of the passage—We conceive these puzzling words of Moses to be no other than a prayer for himself—that his sins which might stand charged against him in the book of God, might be blotted out, however God might deal with Israel. "SINS are compared to debts, which are written in the creditor's book, and crossed, or blotted out, when paid. [23] Man's sins are written in the book of God's remembrance, or accounts; out of which all men shall be judged hereafter. [24] And when sin is pardoned it is laid to be blotted out. [25] And not to be found any more, though sought for." [26]