CONTENTS This Chapter is rendered remarkable in that it is the beginning of the history of Moses, the writer of the Book of Exodus, and one of the most illustrious types of the Lord Jesus, as the great deliverer and lawgiver of his people; and as a mediator. The Contents of this Chapter are, the bi... [ Continue Reading ]
I would have the Reader remark concerning the fairness of Moses: that though Moses had this outward attraction to recommend him: yet of Jesus, the Son of God, it is said, he had no form nor comeliness; and when we should see him, there was no beauty that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:2. The law ap... [ Continue Reading ]
Who that beholds the exposure of Moses, but must immediately call to mind the similar situation of the Lord Jesus. See Matthew 2:13... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the gracious interposition of God. Moses shall not only be preserved in the moment of danger, but preserved by the very daughter of the man who sought his life. Psalms 107:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! while you admire and adore the goodness of God, in thus forming our nature with those unconscious pleas for mercy which fail not to operate upon all minds, more or less: do not forget what the Lord saith of his own free and spontaneous mercy, as manifested to our whole nature, when we were c... [ Continue Reading ]
Who doth not, or will not, see divine wisdom arranging all this to his glory, and the mother's joy? But is there not also a gracious, as well as a providential lesson read to us here? Is not the unexpected blessing of receiving her child back again in this way by Moses' mother, a figure of the unexp... [ Continue Reading ]
I think this verse may be spiritualized. Jesus doth in effect say the same concerning his children to all his ministering servants.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses means, drawn out of the water. An Egyptian name. And this I think is very gratifying to the Gentile church; see Isaiah 19:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
This was at least after 40 years. See Acts 7:23; Hebrews 11:24. The Holy Ghost hath told us what age Moses was at this time: see Acts 7:23. And we are indebted to that blessed Spirit for yet more important information, namely, the cause of his going forth. See Hebrews 11:24. Reader! depend upon it t... [ Continue Reading ]
The Jews have a tradition that Moses slew the Egyptian by the word of his mouth. Such instances have been. See Acts 5:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 7:26. Sweet and gentle reproof! Fellow sufferer! fellow oppressed! fellow Christian. All higher persuasions than fellow creature.... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 7:27... [ Continue Reading ]
How the Lord graciously over-rules events! Moses' flight from Egypt is the first step in the design of Israel's deliverance from it. Midian was in peace at that time with Israel, for Israel was not yet formed into a nation. And the Midianites after the flesh were of the seed of Abraham. Genesis 25:2... [ Continue Reading ]
It is probable that this Reuel was a priest of the true God among the Midianites, as Melchizedec was among the Canaanites. See Genesis 14:18. But how afterwards his name is changed to Hobab we know not. See Numbers 10:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
This reminds us of similar transactions: Genesis 29:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
Exodus 4:20... [ Continue Reading ]
Gershom means a stranger there.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, the children of Israel had long been oppressed, and groaned under oppression, but we do not hear of their crying unto God until now. Reader! till this blessed effect be accomplished, we can never say that our affliction is sanctified. Job 35:9; Numbers 20:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the process of grace. God's covenant is the cause of divine mercy: God remembers this: God hears the oppressed cry: God looks upon his people: God hath respect thereto. Reader! never lose sight of this, nor of that assurance connected with it: 2 Chronicles 16:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS How often do the very plans of bad men counteract their own designs! How frequently hath it been known, that the schemes of the ungodly to oppress the righteous have ultimately proved their very means of deliverance? Little did the tyrant of Egypt think when he issued the cruel edict fo... [ Continue Reading ]