Moses in Midian, ii. 16–22.
Energy in disaster, [39].—Disinterested bravery. Parallels with a variation, [40].—The Unseen a refuge. Duty of resisting small wrongs. His wife, [41].—A lonely heart, [42].
[CHAPTER III.]
The Burning Bush, ii. 23–iii.
Death of Raamses. Misery continues, [43].—The cry of the oppressed, [44].—Discipline of Moses, [45].—How a crisis comes, [46].—God hitherto unmentioned. The Angel of the Lord, [47].—An unconsuming fire, [48].—Inquiry: reverence. God finds, not man, [49].—“Take off thy shoe.” “The God of thy father,” [50].—Immortality. “My people,” not saints only, [51].—The good land. The commission, [52].—God with him. A strange token, [53].
A New Name, iii. 14; vi. 2, 3.
Why Moses asked the name of God: idolatry: pantheism, [54].—A progressive revelation, [55].—Jehovah. The sound corrupted. Similar superstitions yet, [56].—What it told the Jews. Reality of being, [57].—Jews not saved by ideas. Streams of tendency. The Self-contained. We live in our past, [58].—And in our future, [59].—Yet Jehovah not the impassive God of Lucretius, [60].—The Immutable is Love. This is our help, [61].—Human will is not paralysed, [62].—The teaching of St. Paul. All this is practical, [63].—This gives stability to all other revelations. Our own needs, [64].
The Commission, iii. 10, 16–22.
God comes where He sends, [65].—The Providential man. Prudence, [66].—Sincerity of demand for a brief respite, [67].—God has already visited them. By trouble He transplants, [68].—The “borrowing” of jewels, [69].