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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
Chadwick, G. A. (George Alexander) · 133,337 words · 210 reading sections
_The Pattern In The Mount._
The problem of problems for all who deny the divinity of the Old Testament is to explain the curious position which its institutions are consistent in accepting. They rest on the authority of heaven, and yet they are not definitive, but provisional. They are always looking forward to another prophet like their founder,…
574 wordsSECTION 182_The Tabernacle._
[39] This investigation offers a fine example of the folly of that kind of interpretation which looks about for some sort of external and arbitrary resemblance, and fastens upon that as the true meaning. Nothing is more common among these expounders than to declare that the wood and gold of the ark are types of the hum…
733 wordsSECTION 183_The Tabernacle._
Over these again was an outer covering of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above all (14). This last, it is generally agreed, ran only along the top, like a ridge tile, to protect the vulnerable part of the roof. And now it has to be remembered that we are speaking of a real tent with sloping sides, no…
754 wordsSECTION 184_The Outer Court._
A screen of the same rich material, but apparently not embroidered with cherubim, was to stretch across the door of the tent; but this was supported on five pillars instead of four, clearly that the central one might support the ridge-bar of the roof. And their sockets were of brass (vers. 36, 37). The tabernacle, lik…
715 wordsSECTION 185_The Outer Court._
[FOR VERSES 20, 21, see page 423.] We are now in a position to ask what sentiment all these arrangements would inspire in the mind of the simple and somewhat superstitious worshippers. Approaching it from outside, the linen enclosure (being seven feet and a half high) would conceal everything but the great roof of th…
884 wordsSECTION 186_"The Holy Garments."_
Thus every worshipper carries away a profound consciousness that he is utterly unworthy, and yet that his unworthiness has been expiated; that he is excluded, and yet that his priest, his representative, has been admitted, and therefore that he may hope. The Holy Ghost did not declare by sign that no way into the Holie…
708 wordsSECTION 187_The Priesthood._
"In the breastplate" (that is, evidently, between the folds as it was doubled), were placed those mysterious means of ascertaining the will of God, the Urim and the Thummim, the Lights and the Perfections; but of their nature, or of the manner in which they became significant, nothing can be said that is not pure conje…
656 wordsSECTION 188_The Priesthood._
At first it has been the secular chief of the family, tribe or nation, who has seemed least unworthy to negotiate as well with heaven as with centres of interest upon earth. But by degrees the duty has everywhere been transferred into professional hands, patriarch and king recoiling, feeling the inconsistency of his ea…
746 wordsSECTION 189_The Priesthood._
And perhaps this is the distinguishing peculiarity of the Jewish priest among others: that he was chosen from among his brethren, and simply as one of them; so that while his office was a proof of their exclusion, it was also a kind of sacrament of their future admission, because he was their brother and their envoy, a…
556 wordsSECTION 190_The Consecration Services._
xxix. The priest being now selected, and his raiment so provided as that it shall speak of his office and its glory, there remains his consecration. In our day there is a disposition to make light of the formal setting apart of men and things for sacred uses. If God, we are asked, has called one to special service, i…
692 wordsSECTION 191_The Consecration Services._
What we actually find is quite natural to a creative imagination, striking out the broad design of the work and its uses first, and then filling in the outlines. It is not natural at a time when freshness and inspiration have departed, and squared timber, as we are told, has taken the place of the living tree. The pri…
730 wordsSECTION 192_The Consecration Services._
Thus, by sacrifice for sin, the priest is rendered fit to offer up to God the symbol of a devoted life. Again, therefore, the hands of Aaron and his sons are laid upon the head of the ram, because they come to offer what represents themselves in another sense than that of expiation--a sweet savour now, an offering made…
675 wordsSECTION 193_Incense._
And where this offering was made, the Omnipresent would meet with them. There He would convey His mind to His priest. There also He would meet with all the people--not occasionally, as amid the more impressive but less tolerable splendours of Sinai, but to dwell among them and be their God. And they should know that al…
655 wordsSECTION 194_The Census._
Such being the import of the type, we need not wonder that it was a perpetual ordinance in their generations, nor yet that no strange perfume might be offered, but only what was prescribed by God. The admixture with prayer of any human, self-asserting, intrusive element, is this unlawful fragrance. It is rhetoric in th…
743 wordsSECTION 195_The Laver._
And yet, with that marvellous condescension which shone most brightly when He most asserted His prerogative, He admitted Peter also to a share in this miraculous redemption-money, as He admits us all to a share in His glory in the skies. Is it not He only Who can redeem His brother, and give to God a ransom for him? I…
470 wordsSECTION 196_The Anointing Oil And The Incense._
xxx. 22-38. We have already seen the meaning of the anointing oil and of the incense. But we have further to remark that their ingredients were accurately prescribed, that they were to be the best and rarest of their kind, and that special skill was demanded in their preparation. Such was the natural dictate of reve…
676 wordsSECTION 197Footnotes:
There is another development of the same tendency, by no means modern, noted by the prophet when he complains that the message of God has become as the "very lovely song of one who hath a pleasant voice and playeth well on an instrument." Wherever divine service is only appreciated in so far as it is "well rendered," a…
250 wordsSECTION 198_Bezaleel And Aholiab._
xxxi. 1-18. Next after this marking off so sharply of the holy from the profane, this consecration of men to special service, this protection of sacred unguents and sacred gums from secular use, we come upon a passage curiously contrasted, yet not really antagonistic to the last, of marvellous practical wisdom, and we…
655 wordsSECTION 199_Bezaleel And Aholiab._
The doctrine of Scripture is not that man is a tool, but that he is responsible for vast gifts, which come directly from heaven--that every good gift is from above, that it was God Himself Who planted in Paradise the tree of knowledge. Nor would anything do more to restrain the passions, to calm the impulses and to el…
410 wordsSECTION 200_The Golden Calf._
xxxii. While God was thus providing for Israel, what had Israel done with God? They had grown weary of waiting: had despaired of and slighted their heroic leader, ("this Moses, the man that brought us up,") had demanded gods, or a god, at the hand of Aaron, and had so far carried him with them or coerced him that he t…
626 wordsSECTION 201_Prevailing Intercession._
xxxiii. At this stage the first concession is announced: Moses shall lead the people to their rest, and God will send an angel with him. We have seen that the original promise of a great Angel in whom was the Divine Presence was full of encouragement and privilege (xxiii. 20). No unbiassed reader can suppose that it …
570 wordsSECTION 202_The Vision Of God._
xxxiv. It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask, "Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory" (xxxiii. 18). We have seen how nobly this petition and the answer condemn all anthropomorphic misunderstandings of what had alre…
701 wordsSECTION 203_The Conclusion._
We learn also something of the exaltation of which matter is capable. We who have seen coarse bulb and soil and rain transmuted by the sunshine into radiance of bloom and subtlety of perfume, who have seen plain faces illuminated from within until they were almost angelic,--may we not hope for something great and rare …
677 wordsSECTION 204The Expositor'S Bible.
Could any better system be imagined by which to convert a slavish and superstitious multitude into a nation at once humble and pure and gallant--a nation of brothers and of worshippers, chastened by a genuine sense of ill desert and of responsibility, and yet braced and fired by the conviction of an exalted destiny? T…
442 wordsSECTION 205The Gospel According To St. Mark.
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474 wordsSECTION 206First Series.
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575 wordsSECTION 207Second Series.
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413 wordsSECTION 208The Theological Educator.
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359 wordsSECTION 209Volume Iii.
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293 wordsSECTION 210*** End Of The Project Gutenberg Ebook The Expositor'S Bible: The Book Of Exodus ***
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