Exodus 12

This shows the voice of God speaking in it; it was foretold by the prophet, a virgin shall conceive (Isaiah 7:14), and the Messiah shall be cut off (Daniel 9:26). The Scripture foretells things that should fall out many ages and centuries after; as how long Israel should serve i…

Resp. 1. Because of the strangeness of the deliverance. God delivered his people Israel by strange signs and wonders, by sending plague after plague upon Pharaoh, blasting the fruits of the earth, killing all the firstborn in Egypt (Exodus 12:29). And when Israel marched out of…

He turned their heart to hate his people. The more they hated and oppressed Israel, the more God plagued the Egyptians, and the gladder they were to let Israel go (Exodus 12:33). The Egyptians were urgent upon Israel that they might send them out of the land in haste.

As for me and my house we will serve the Lord: let us make our houses Bethel places, where God's name is called upon (Colossians 4:15). Salute Nymphas, and the church that is in his house: let the parent endeavor that his children may honor God, and the master that his servants…

Response 1. It is a duty imposed; let him examine himself. The Passover was not to be eaten raw (Exodus 12:19). To come to such an ordinance slightly, without examination, is to come in an undue manner, and is like eating the Passover raw.

In the Powder-Treason he made the traitors to be their own betrayers: God can do his work by the enemy's hand. God made the Egyptians send away the people of Israel laden with jewels (Exodus 12:36). The Church is the apple of God's eye, and the eyelid of his providence does dail…

Think with yourselves how great a mercy it is: it is one of the richest jewels in the cabinet of the new covenant (Psalm 32:1): "Blessed is he whose iniquity is forgiven" — in the Hebrew it is Ashre, meaning "blessednesses." And think with yourselves the unparalleled misery of s…

Adam's family was GOD's Church, and therein was first notable peace: but when GOD accepted Abel's sacrifice, and refused Cain's, then persecution began, and Cain slew his brother Abel. Abraham is called the Father of the faithful, and his family in those days, was the true Churc…

When went Moses out of Egypt? The time is directly set down, Exodus 12.41, Even the self same day when the promise of God was expired: for when the four hundred and thirty years were expired, then went all the host of the Lord out of Egypt, neither before nor after, but the very…

When Sodom must be destroyed, righteous Lot and his family, must be drawn out; nay, the Angel can do nothing till he be safe, Genesis 19:16, 22. When the destroying Angel went over the land of Egypt, and destroyed the firstborn in every house of the Egyptians (the Israelites dwe…

Before God sends his judgments on Jerusalem, an angel is sent to mark them in the foreheads that mourn for the abominations of the people (Ezekiel 9:4). And this privilege none can have but he whose heart is sprinkled with the blood of Christ (Exodus 12:23 with 1 Corinthians 5:7…

1. Either he will make his Enemies friendly to his people. Exod 12. 35. The children of Israel borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and the Lord gave his people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians. God can make wolves to suckle his lambs: Or,

The promise is marvelously sweet and strong, you may handle the matter so, that as you have instrumentally given them natural life, you may procure them spiritual life, they came out of your loins dead in sin, and they will grow in sin more and more, more unsavory, and more unpr…

When God delivered his people after a long captivity, he delivered them with glory, and some kind of triumph, when he turned the Egyptian captivity, they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of…

Mark here how the promises of God lie as void, dead, and of none effect, till the particular time of their accomplishment. God promises Jacob that his posterity shall be a great nation after 430 years: for which time they remain in thrall and bondage; but the very night after th…

God promised that after 430 years, the Israelites should be delivered out of Egypt, presently when the time was expired, nothing could hinder the promise. Read (Exodus 12:41). Therefore our duty is, to rest on God's promises in all times, both in life and death.

But our Prophet tells us, that we shall not need to fear missing of the way when we follow God, while he goes before us; seeing it pleases him to take this office upon him. It is very likely also, that he alludes to the history of the first deliverance, because God then led his…

For he uses not their ministry, as if he stood in need of their help, but rather to support our infirmity, as we have said before: yet it is most probable, and answers best to the Prophet's words, that one Angel alone had commission to do this service. Even as in the ancient del…

It is as much then as if he had said, Upon those which shall bear the signs and marks of their deliverance. It may be also that he alludes to that place of Exodus: where it is said, that the houses which the destroying Angel had marked, were not hurt (Exodus 12:23). For as then…

Now having pulled off their mask of holiness, to wit, their glorying in the name of Israel, (as in the first verse) he imposes upon them a more proper name, and flatly calls them rebels. By the womb, I understand not their first estate, soon after they were separated to be the L…

For they fled by night out of Egypt, feigning as if they had only meant to have gone three days' journey to offer sacrifice to God (Exodus 3:5 and 8:27). Afterward, they went forth hastily and with tumult, as it was enjoined them (Exodus 12:31), and then Pharaoh pursued them, th…

But some childishly descant here upon the sign of the Cross: others refer it to the preaching of the Gospel: and both of them, as I take it, are wide from the mark. For he rather seems to allude to that which was done at the going forth and deliverance of the people: as Moses de…

23. As it is written in the Law This was another exercise of piety which was discharged by Joseph and Mary. The Lord commanded, that all the males should be dedicated to him, in remembrance of their deliverance; because when the angel slew all the first-born of Egypt, (Exodus 12…

It is first inquired, Why does the day which preceded the sacrificing of the lamb receive the name of the day of unleavened bread? For the Law did not forbid the use of leaven till the lamb was eaten, (Exodus 12:18.) But this difficulty may be speedily removed, for the phrase re…

After the same sort he here also leads us into the Scriptures, where as he says: You were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled and without spot. For here does he expound that which is read in the Prophets and Moses: as that in Isaiah 53, He was brou…

That true Faith, by which Persons rely on the Righteousness of Christ, and the Work that he hath done for them, and do truly feed and live upon him, is evermore accompanied with such a Spirit of Earnestness in the Christian Work and Course. Which was typified of old, by the Mann…

In like manner, we find the evils done to Gods people have been repaid, by a just retribution to their enemies. Pharaoh and the Egyptians were cruel enemies to Gods Israel, and designed the ruine of their poor innocent babes; and God repaid it, in smiting all the first-born of E…

Now nothing can be more precise, certain and punctual, than is the performance of mercy at the time and season which God has appointed, how long soever it be, or how many obstacles soever lye in the way of it. There was a time prefixed by God himself for the performance of that…

2. A present sad affliction, the sense whereof makes men careless of what is adorning; So David (2 Samuel 15:30), under heavy affliction, walks barefooted. 3. An unfitness for travel: Therefore, when the people were to be in readiness for their journey (Exodus 12:11), their feet…

Or if you should meet with such cruel Dives's, who will contribute nothing to your support, you ought rather with godly Lazarus to die in your integrity, than to steal anything from them; which although it be their superfluity, yet it is not your right without their donation: an…

And Christ, the seed of the woman, did now, in a very remarkable manner, fulfill the curse on the serpent, in bruising his head. Exodus 12:12. "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and ag…

Now he does so unto that blood as sprinkled, in respect of its application to purification and holiness. He tells us how this sprinkling was performed — by dipping hyssop in the blood of the sacrifice and dashing it upon the things and persons to be purified, as also in the inst…

Now that this Pentateuch which was never as such committed to the Church of God, that had its rise no man knows by whom, and that hath been preserved no man knows how, known by few, used by none of the ancient Christians, that hath been voluntarily corrupted by men of corrupt mi…

And also that nation whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterwards they shall come out with great substance. Compare now Exodus 12:41. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the self-same day, it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lo…

(5.) Infants in the former Covenant had right by birth to the means of salvation, to be taught and Catechized in the Law of the Lord, because born of Covenanting Parents within the Visible Church, and so had title to Covenant-calling and God's Covenant-choosing (Matthew 22:4), a…

It is a stronger consolation (and the strongest should be the Christian's choice) that is founded upon the Father's giving, and the Son's receiving of sinners; and the faith of salvation to me which relies and leans upon Christ's undertaking for me, that I shall not be lost, nor…

Now, because it was somewhat late, and because the pilgrims were weary with their journey, and also made faint with the sight of the fight, and of the terrible lions, they desired, as soon as might be, to prepare to go to rest. In fact, said those of the family, refresh yourselv…

This bitterness that a soul tastes of, makes the love of God sweet and savory to his soul, and it is a special reason that God looks at in all the bitterness which he gives us to taste of in all our sins, that so our pardoning and healing in Christ might seem more precious in ou…