Category: EXPOSITIONS

    ‘It shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and    for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord’s law    may be in thy mouth.’–EXODUS xiii. 9.The question may be asked, whether this command is to be takenmetaphorically or literally. No doubt the remembrance of the greatdeliverance was intrusted to acts. Besides the annual Passover…

    ‘And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and    cried; and the people wept that night. 2. And all the    children of Israel murmured against Moses and against    Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them, Would    God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God    we had died in this wilderness! 3. And wherefore hath    the…

          ‘But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that          I write unto you; for ye yourselves are taught of          God to love one another. 10. And indeed ye do it          toward all the brethren which are in all          Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye          increase more and more; 11. And that ye study to          be quiet, and to do…

    ‘Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon    it … HOLINESS TO THE LORD.’–EXODUS xxviii. 36.    ‘In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses,    HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.’–ZECH. xiv. 20.    ‘His name shall be in their foreheads.’–REV. xxii. 4.You will have perceived my purpose in putting these three widelyseparated texts together. They…

    ‘If thou doest not well, sin croucheth at the door: and    unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over    him.’–GENESIS iv. 7 (R. V.).These early narratives clothe great moral and spiritual truths inpicturesque forms, through which it is difficult for us to pierce. Inthe world’s childhood God spoke to men as to children, because…

    ‘The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is    Mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with Me.’    –LEV. xxv. 23.The singular institution of the Jubilee year had more than one purpose.As a social and economical arrangement it tended to prevent theextremes of wealth and poverty. Every fiftieth year the land was torevert to…

    ‘And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a    stranger, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations    of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding    the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the    sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s    wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their…

          ‘When the fulness of the time came, God sent forth          His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that          He might redeem them which were under the law,          that we might receive the adoption of sons.’–GAL.          iv. 4, 5 (R.V.).It is generally supposed that by the ‘fulness of time’ Paul means toindicate that Christ came at the…

    ‘And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of    my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return    unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal    well with thee: I am not worthy of the least of all the    mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast shewed    unto Thy servant; for…

    ‘And Abram passed through the land unto the place of    Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was    then in the land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and    said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there    builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto    him.’–GENESIS xii. 6, 7.Great epoch and man. Steps…