The word Jehovah known before: its consolations now, [99].—The new truth is often implicit in the old, [100].—Discernment more needed than revelation. “Judgments,” [101].—My people: your God, [102].—The tie is of God’s binding, [103],—Fatherhood and sonship, [104].—Faith becomes knowledge. The body hinders the soul, [105].—We are responsible for bodies. Israel weighs Moses down, [106].—We may hold back the saints, [107].—The pedigree, [107]–[8].—Indications of genuine history, [108]–[9].—“As a god to Pharaoh,” [110].—We also, [111].
[CHAPTER VII.]
The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart, vii. 3–13.
The assertion offends many, [112].—Was he a free agent? When hardened. A.V. incorrect, [113].—He resists five plagues spontaneously. The last five are penal, [114].—Not “hardened” in wickedness, but in nerve. A.V. confuses three words: His heart is (a) “hardened,” [115].—(b) it is made “strong” (c) “heavy,” [116].—Other examples of these words, [117].—The warning implied, [117]–[19].—Moses returns with the signs, [119].—The functions of miracle, [120].
The Plagues, vii. 14.
Their vast range, [121].—Their relation to Pantheism, Idolatry, Philosophy, [122].—And to the gods of Egypt. Their retributive fitness, [123].—Their arrangement, [124].—Like our Lord’s, not creative, [125].—God in common things, [126].—Some we inflict upon ourselves. Yet rationalistic analogies fail, [127].—Duration of the conflict, [128].
The First Plague, vii, 14–25.
The probable scene, [129].—Extent of the plague. The magicians. Its duration, [131].—Was Israel exempt? Contrast with first miracle of Jesus, [132].