CONTENTS Matters are now coming to a crisis, and a dreadful crisis it is in this eventful history and it will soon be seen to whom the sovereign power belongs. This chapter prepares the way for the account of the tenth and last plague of Egypt in the destruction of the first-born. Moses denounceth... [ Continue Reading ]
By borrowing we may understand, without straining the expression, accepting those presents to which their long servitude had justly entitled them. Psa_105:37; Psa_106:46.... [ Continue Reading ]
This had been threatened before: Exodus 4:23. And, Reader! doth not this serve to teach how true that scripture is, the Lord is slow to anger: see Leviticus 26:44. in proof. And observe the expression in this plague. Moses and Aaron are not now to be the instruments of inflicting: I will go out, sai... [ Continue Reading ]
Is there not somewhat very striking in the destruction of the first-born? Through the whole Levitical dispensation what a perpetual reference is there made to this! It should seem that even in the destruction of enemies as well as in the salvation of the Lord's people, an allusion is unceasingly mad... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 25:6. The midnight cry in the soul is a spiritual illustration of this.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! again remark the striking tokens of distinguishing grace. Oh! did you, my brother, but always keep this view of things alive in the soul, of the present distinctions which the Lord makes, and the everlasting distinctions which will one day be made, between the precious and the vile, you woul... [ Continue Reading ]
See Numbers 12:3. The anger of Moses was like that of Phinehas, see Numbers 15:11; Numbers 15:11. The prophet Ezekiel's bitterness of spirit was of the same kind: Ezekiel 3:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
How graciously God confirms his word. He had prepared the mind of Moses to expect this inattention on the part of Pharaoh several times before: Exodus 3:19; Exodus 7:4 etc. And thus the issue proved. But what awful scriptures are these which explain the cause of such obduracy! John 12:37; Romans 11:... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Before I leave this Chapter to enter upon the sequel of the wonderful history which follows, and behold the arm of God executing his threatenings upon the incurable obstinacy of Pharaoh and his subjects; I would pause once more over what I have read, to admire and adore the distinguishin... [ Continue Reading ]