when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.”
Here is, I. The great zeal and industry of Moses as a magistrate. 1. Having been employed to redeem Israel out of the house of bondage, herein he is a further type of Christ, that he is employed as a lawgiver and a judge among them.
Commenting on Exodus 18:13-27
And Moses's father in law said unto him,.... Having observed what he did, and heard his answer to the question he put to him: the thing that thou doest is not good; not meaning that it was not morally good, or that it was morally evil; for it was certainly a good thing to inquire of the mind and will of God for the people...
I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws - These words are so very particular that they leave little room for doubt that the law had been given. Such words would scarcely have been used had not the statutes and laws been then in existence.