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<div2 id="Ex.i" n="i" next="Ex.ii" prev="Ex" progress="31.07%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Ex.i-p0.1">Exodus</h2>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="Ex.i-Page_270" n="270"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Ex.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Ex.i-p1"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Ex.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Ex.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Ex.i-p1.3">OF THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED</h5>
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<h2 id="Ex.i-p1.4">E X O D U S.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Ex.i-p2"><span class="smallcaps" id="Ex.i-p2.1">Moses</span> (the
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<i>servant of the Lord</i> in writing for him as well as in acting
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for him—with the pen of God as well as with the rod of God in his
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hand) having, in the first book of his history, preserved and
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transmitted the records of the church, while it existed in private
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families, comes, in this second book, to give us an account of its
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growth into a great nation; and, as the former furnishes us with
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the best economics, so this with the best politics. The beginning
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of the former book shows us how God formed the world for himself;
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the beginning of this shows us how he formed Israel for himself,
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and both to show forth his praise, <scripRef id="Ex.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Isa.43.21" parsed="|Isa|43|21|0|0" passage="Isa 43:21">Isa. xliii. 21</scripRef>. There we have the creation
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of the world in history, here the redemption of the world in type.
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The Greek translators called this book <i>Exodus</i> (which
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signifies a <i>departure</i> or <i>going out</i>) because it begins
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with the story of the going out of the children of Israel from
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Egypt. Some allude to the names of this and the foregoing book, and
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observe that immediately after <i>Genesis,</i> which signifies the
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<i>beginning</i> or <i>original,</i> follows <i>Exodus,</i> which
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signifies <i>a departure;</i> for a time to be born is immediately
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succeeded by a time to die. No sooner have we made our entrance
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into the world than we must think of making our exit, and going out
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of the world. When we begin to live we begin to die. The forming of
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Israel into a people was a new creation. As the earth was, in the
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beginning, first fetched from under water, and then beautified and
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replenished, so Israel was first by an almighty power made to
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emerge out of Egyptian slavery, and then enriched with God's law
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and tabernacle. This book gives us, I. The accomplishment of the
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promises made before to Abraham (<scripRef id="Ex.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Exod.1.1-Exod.19.25" parsed="|Exod|1|1|19|25" passage="Ex 1:1-19:25"><i>ch.</i> i.-xix.</scripRef>), and then, II. The
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establishment of the ordinances which were afterwards observed by
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Israel, <scripRef id="Ex.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Exod.20.1-Exod.40.38" parsed="|Exod|20|1|40|38" passage="Ex 20:1-40:38"><i>ch.</i>
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xx.-xl.</scripRef> Moses, in this book, begins, like Cæsar, to
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write his own Commentaries; nay, a greater, a far greater, than
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Cæsar is here. But henceforward the penman is himself the hero, and
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gives us the history of those things of which he was himself an eye
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and ear-witness, <i>et quorum pars magna fuit—and in which he bore
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a conspicuous part.</i> There are more types of Christ in this book
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than perhaps in any other book of the Old Testament; for Moses
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wrote of him, <scripRef id="Ex.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:John.5.46" parsed="|John|5|46|0|0" passage="Joh 5:46">John v. 46</scripRef>.
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The way of man's reconciliation to God, and coming into covenant
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and communion with him by a Mediator, is here variously
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represented; and it is of great use to us for the illustration of
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the New Testament, now that we have that to assist us in the
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explication of the Old.</p>
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