CONTENTS In this Chapter, we have a repetition of the law concerning the Passover. Here is also, a provision made for such of the people as, by reason of any ceremonial uncleanness, were prevented from the observance of it at the season appointed. The Chapter concludes with an account of the journe... [ Continue Reading ]
It is very worthy observation, that this precept for the commemoration of the passover, and most probably, the same day in the year after the Israelites deliverance from Egypt, was by the express commandment of GOD. For if the Reader will consult Exodus 12:25, he will there find, that the precept fo... [ Continue Reading ]
There is somewhat meant no doubt in the expression, that it was in the wilderness of Sinai, the passover was kept. And what more likely to be conveyed under the expression than this? that the blessings of Mount Zion, are most distinctly seen and enjoyed in the view of the threatnings of Mount Sinai.... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader to take notice with me of the true marks of grace in the persons here mentioned; in that they felt the disadvantage they laboured under, in being kept back from the ordinance, and complained of it as their affliction. When the LORD in his providence, by sickness in ourselves or deat... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the servants of the sanctuary may learn a profitable lesson, from the example of Moses. This highly honoured minister of the LORD, so well taught as he was, did not presume to determine upon any point respecting divine things, between the LORD and his people, without first asking counsel of GOD... [ Continue Reading ]
Oh! how gracious is the LORD, in making suitable provisions for his people. Reader, it may be your lot, or it may be mine, amidst the various and sometimes perplexing circumstances of this wilderness state, to be kept back from the means of grace; but never, never, will the LORD suffer any of his pe... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, how particularly that part of the passover service is again insisted upon; nothing of the paschal lamb is to be left, and not a bone broken. Dearest JESUS! what can a poor sinner leave of thee, who needs in every point a whole Saviour? And what a pleasing thought is it to thy people, that,... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! remark the striking difference between the souls of trembling, fearful, believers, kept back from ordinances, through various causes preventing; and the man who willfully neglects so great salvation. Heb_10:25-26; Heb_10:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sweet mercy to the stranger! And was not this a type of JESUS'S mercy, to every poor Gentile stranger? Is not this in reference to the promise in the Covenant, in which the Heathen are given to the Redeemer for an inheritance? Nay, my soul, to come nearer home, wast not thou a stranger to the common... [ Continue Reading ]
Beside the historical sense of this passage, let the reader not overlook the spiritual. If he consults the Prophet, he will discover that the LORD himself, is both the pillar of fire and the cloud. Isaiah 27:3; Isaiah 27:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
I detain the Reader in the perusal of these verses, only to remark to him, that those testimonies of the LORD'S pleasure, for the movement or detention of Israel, beheld with an eye to the wilderness journeys of his spiritual Israel now, are very striking. The whole pilgrimage of Israel through the... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS BLESSED LORD! in the perusal of this chapter, let me chiefly discern by thy HOLY SPIRIT's teaching, Him who is the passover of his people; and may a gracious GOD enable me not only once a year, but every day, to keep the feast. May it be my desire, like those whose souls melted within t... [ Continue Reading ]