Exodus 13

Lastly, to a cloud of witnesses. They are compared to a cloud (as I take it) by allusion to the cloud which directed and led the Israelites in the wilderness: for, when they came from Egypt, and were 40 years in the Desert of Arabia; all that while, they were directed by a pilla…

My presence, that is, my Angel, spoken of before, called the angel of his presence (Isaiah 63:9): In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. This Angel is called Jehovah (Exodus 13:21): And the Lord went before them, by day in a pillar of…

For why should they enjoy that comfort which they had unkindly refused to give to others? He takes the mid-day here for extreme heat: and this similitude is often found in the scriptures, to wit, that the Lord was as a cloud at high noon, and as a pillar of fire by night (Exodus…

If the faithful then at any time have desired that their faith might be confirmed by signs, we must not by and by follow them therein; because it was a thing very rare: as to Gideon, who being taken from the flail to govern the people, he gave two signs which he asked, to the en…

For I take not assembly for congregation, but for the place where men meet. Now to the end he might describe and set forth a full blessing, he alludes to that which Moses recites; namely, that when the Lord would deliver his people from the bondage of Egypt, he sent a pillar of…

I answer, Ans. that however he mentions none but Abraham here, yet under him he meant to call to mind other examples of his goodness, which their forefathers had tasted of since, that from both, they might conceive hope of deliverance. Abraham was not only delivered out of Chald…

But especially when he has shown so certain and so excellent testimonies of his continual care over us. He brought Israel out of Egypt, upon condition they should never forget such a deliverance (Exodus 13:9). The Prophet now sets the same God before their eyes, showing that not…

He carried them up (says Moses, Deuteronomy 32:13) to the high places of the earth, when they passed through the wilderness. Also he says, that the Lord went before the Israelites, when they departed out of Egypt (Exodus 13:21). Here we see then what singular love the Lord bears…

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…

Whatever he does in religion, he does to purpose. Under the law, God rejected the snail and the ass (Leviticus 11:30; Exodus 13:13). And under the gospel, he allows no sluggish lazy professor (1 Timothy 5:11, 13).

2. Quest. Why is it then said the first, when no other commandments with promise follow? Answ. This particle (first) has not always reference to some other following, but is often simply taken, to show that none was before it: so is the word firstborn used in the law: and so Chr…

1. There is an excellency in the firstborn, as is evident by Jacob's speech to his eldest son, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power (Genesis 49:3). And thereupon God took the firstborn as peculia…

So the seal was brought, and he set his mark upon them, that they might be known in the places where they were yet to go. Now the seal was the contents and sum of the passover which the children of Israel did eat (Exodus 13:8-10), when they came out of the land of Egypt; and the…