Category: EXPOSITIONS

    ‘And, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush    was not consumed.’ EXODUS iii. 1It was a very sharp descent from Pharaoh’s palace to the wilderness,and forty years of a shepherd’s life were a strange contrast to thebrilliant future that once seemed likely for Moses. But God tests Hisweapons before He uses them, and great…

    ‘And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the    Hebrew.’    GENESIS xiv. 13.This is a singular designation of Abram as ‘The Hebrew.’ Probably wehave in its use here a trace of the customary epithet which he boreamong the inhabitants of Canaan, and perhaps the presence of the namein this narrative may indicate the influence of…

    ‘Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh,    that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of    Israel, out of Egypt. 11. And Moses said unto God, Who    am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should    bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12.    And He said, Certainly I will be…

    ‘And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and    said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go    up into the mountain; 18. And see the land, what it is;    and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be    strong or weak, few or many; 19. And what the land is    that they dwell in,…

    ‘And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren,    and all that went up with him to bury his father, after    he had buried his father. And when Joseph’s brethren    saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will    peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all    the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a…