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…

I leave this to the judgment of all who have ever seriously used the Hebrew language in the study of sacred letters. Rabbi Bechai, on section Noah (Exodus 13:17), brings forward an excellent testimony from the book Bahir to this end — namely: The points with the letters of the l…

They are for continual daily instruction. That which respects the public ministry. Exodus 12:25-26. Let it be therefore, when you shall come into the land which the Lord shall give to you, as he has said, and shall observe this worship. Let it be (I say) when your children ask y…

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…

Faith truly exercised in bringing the soul into an actual subjection to the authority of Christ in the observance of this Day, and directing the thoughts to a contemplation of the Rest that he entered into after his works, with the Rest that he has procured for us to enter into…

And this night fell in directly upon the expiration of the 430 years before limited, verse 40, 41. For the time of the year, it was in the month [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Abib, as the Hebrews call the month of the spring, which in those Eastern parts gave blades to the corn, a…

40. That the tenth of every clean beast be separated to the Lord (Leviticus 27:32). 41. That every first-born Male be sanctified and offered to the Lord (Exodus 13:2; Deuteronomy 15:19). 42. That every first-born of man be redeemed with a certain price (Numbers 18:15).

Secondly, the appearance of his glory which they enjoyed on extraordinary occasions. The first, with the first use of it is mentioned (Exodus 13:21, 22): And the Lord went before them by day in the pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to g…

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…

Fourthly, by Urim and Thummim (Numbers 27:21; 1 Samuel 30:7-8). Fifthly, by signs (Genesis 32:24; Exodus 13:21). Sixthly, by audible voice (Exodus 20:1; Genesis 22:15).