Sanctify to me all the first — born — The parents were not to look upon themselves as interested in their first — born, till they had first solemnly presented them to God, and received them back from him again. It is mine — By a special right, being by my singular favour preserved from the common de... [ Continue Reading ]
When the lord shall bring you into the land, thou shalt keep this service — 'Till then they were not obliged to keep the passover, without a particular command from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
There shall no leavened bread be seen in all thy quarters — Accordingly the Jews usage was, before the feast of the passover, to cast all the leavened bread out of their houses; either they burnt it, or buried it, or broke it small, and threw it into the wind; they searched diligently with lighted c... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon thy hand, between thine eyes — Proverbial expressions; denoting things which are never out of our thoughts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt redeem — The price of the redemption was fixed by the law.... [ Continue Reading ]
For frontlets between thine eyes — As conspicuous as any thing fixt to thy forehead, or between thine eyes.... [ Continue Reading ]
There were many reasons why God led them through the way of the wilderness of the red sea. The Egyptians were to be drowned in the Red — sea, the Israelites were to be humbled, and proved in the wilderness. Deuteronomy 8:2. God had given it to Moses for a sign, Exodus 3:12, ye shall serve God in thi... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord went before them in a pillar — In the two first stages, it was enough that God directed Moses whither to march; he knew the country, and the road; but now they are come to the edge of the wilderness, they would have occasion for a guide, and a very good guide they had, infinitely wise,... [ Continue Reading ]
He took not away the pillar of the cloud, — No not when they seemed to have less occasion for it: it never left them 'till it brought them to the borders of Canaan. It was a cloud which the wind could not scatter. There was something spiritual in this pillar of cloud and fire. The children of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]