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Exodus

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8

Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16

Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24

Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32

Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40

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AN

EXPOSITION,

W I T H   P R A C T I C A L   O B S E R V A T I O N S,

OF THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED

E X O D U S.

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MOSES (the servant of the Lord in writing for

him as well as in acting for him–with the pen of

God as well as with the rod of God in his hand)

having, in the first book of his history, preserved

and transmitted the records of the church, while

it existed in private families, comes, in this

second book, to give us an account of its growth

into a great nation; and, as the former furnishes

us with the best economics, so this with

the best politics. The beginning of the former

book shows us how God formed the world for

himself; the beginning of this shows us how he

formed Israel for himself, and both to show

forth his praise,

Isa. xliii. 21.

There we have the

creation of the world in history, here the redemption

of the world in type. The Greek translators

called this book Exodus (which signifies

a departure or going out) because it begins with

the story of the going out of the children of

Israel from Egypt. Some allude to the names of

this and the foregoing book, and observe that

immediately after Genesis, which signifies the

beginning or original, follows Exodus, which

signifies a departure; for a time to be born is

immediately succeeded by a time to die. No

sooner have we made our entrance into the world

than we must think of making our exit, and

going out of the world. When we begin to live

we begin to die. The forming of Israel into

a people was a new creation. As the earth was,

in the beginning, first fetched from under water,

and then beautified and replenished, so Israel

was first by an almighty power made to emerge

out of Egyptian slavery, and then enriched with

God’s law and tabernacle. This book gives us,

I. The accomplishment of the promises made

before to Abraham

(ch. i.-xix.),

and then,

II. The establishment of the ordinances which

were afterwards observed by Israel,

ch. xx.-xl.

Moses, in this book, begins, like Cæsar,

to write his own Commentaries; nay, a greater,

a far greater, than Cæsar is here. But henceforward

the penman is himself the hero, and

gives us the history of those things of which he

was himself an eye and ear-witness, et quorum pars

magna fuit–and in which he bore a conspicuous

part. There are more types of Christ

in this book than perhaps in any other book of

the Old Testament; for Moses wrote of him,

John v. 46.

The way of man’s reconciliation to

God, and coming into covenant and communion

with him by a Mediator, is here variously represented;

and it is of great use to us for the illustration

of the New Testament, now that we have

that to assist us in the explication of the Old.

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