Introduction to the Old Testament
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Buy of this book includes free examination access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Exodus The book of Exodus—so named in the Greek version from the march of Israel out of Egypt—opens upon a scene of oppression very different from the prosperity and triumph in which Genesis had clogged. Israel is being cruelly crushed by the new period which has arisen in Egypt (i.) and the tale of the book is the tale of her redemption. Ultimately it is Israel’s God that is her redeemer, but He operates largely by human means ; and the first step is the preparation of a deliverer, Moses, whose parentage, early training, and fearless like of justice mark him out as the coming man (ii.). In the solitude and depression of the desert, he is encouraged by the sight of a bush, burning yet unconsumed, and sent into the world with a new vision of God l upon his fantastic and perilous task (iii.). Though thus perfectly equipped, he hesitated, and God gave him a helper in Aaron his brother (iv.). Then starts the Titanic struggle between Moses and Pharaoh—Moses the champion of justice, Pharaoh the incarnation of might (v.). Blow after blow falls from Israel’s God upon the obstinate king of Egypt and his miserable land : the water of the Nile is turned into blood (vii.), 1 The tale of the revelation of Israel’s God under His new name, Jehovah, is told twice (in ch. iii. and ch. vi.). there are plagues of frogs, gnats, gadflies (viii.), murrain, boils, hail (ix.), locusts, darkness (x.), and —last and most terrible of all—the smiting of the first-born, an event in connexion with which the passover was instituted. Then Pharaoh yielded. Israel went into the world ; and the festival of unleavened bread was ordained for a perpetual memorial (xi., xii.); also the first-born of man and beast was consecrated, xiii. 1-16. Israel’s troubles, but, were not yet over. Their departing host was pursued by the i…
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this fleeting work on so complex a theme and so vital to western civilization and world culture really does what the leader proposed for it. its a smooth read and the writers knowlege doesnt get in the way of the readers search for answers or even new questons. be sure to have your bible/torah open. worth rereading and its a keeper as a reference work.
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