THE EIGHTH PLAGUE, x. 1-20.
Moses encouraged, 154.--Deliverances should be remembered. A sterner rebuke. Locusts in Egypt, 155.--Their effect. The court interferes. Yet "their hearts hardened" also, 156--Infatuation of Pharaoh. Parallel of Napoleon, 157.--Women and little ones did share in festivals, 158.--A gentle wind. Locusts. Another surrender, 159.--Relief. Our broken vows, 160.
THE NINTH PLAGUE, x. 21-29.
Menephtah's sun-worship, 161.--Suddenness of the plague. Concentrated narrative, 162.--Darkness represents death, 163.--The Book of Wisdom upon this plague, 164-5.--Isaiah's allusions. The Pharaoh's character, 165.--Altercation with Moses, 166.
THE LAST PLAGUE ANNOUNCED, xi. 1-10.
This chapter supplements the last. The blow is known to be impending. Uses of its delay, 167.--Israel shall claim wages. The menace, 168.--Parallel with St. John, 169-70.
THE PASSOVER, xii. 1-28.
Birthday of a nation. The calendar, 171.--"The congregation." The feast is social, 172.--The nation is based upon the family. No Egyptian house escapes, 173.--National interdependence. The Passover a sacrifice, 174.--What does the blood mean? Rationalistic theories. Harvest festivals, 175.--The unbelieving point of view: what theories of sacrifice were then current? "A sacrifice was a meal," 176.--Human sacrifices. The Passover "unhistorical." Kuenen rejects this view, 177.--Phenomena irreconcilable with it, 178-9. What is really expressed? Danger even to Jews, 179.--Salvation by grace. Not unbought, 180.--The lamb a ransom. All firstborn are forfeited. Tribe of Levi, 181.--Cash payment. Effect on Hebrew literature, 182.--Its prophetic import, 183.--The Jew must co-operate with God: must also become His guest, 184.--Sacred festivals. Lamb or kid. Four days reserved, 185.--Men are sheep. Heads of houses originally sacrifice. Transition to Levites in progress under Hezekiah, complete under Josiah, 186.--Unleavened bread. The lamb. Roast, not sodden, 187.--Complete consumption. Judgment upon gods of Egypt, 188.--The blood a token unto themselves. On their lintels, 189.--The word "pass-over," 190.--Domestic teaching, 191.--Many who ate the feast perished. Aliens might share, 192.
THE TENTH PLAGUE, xii. 29-36.
The blow falls. Pharaoh was not "firstborn": his son "sat upon his throne," 193.--The scene, 194.--The demands of Israel. St. Augustine's inference, 195.
THE EXODUS, xii. 37-42.
The route, 195.--Their cattle, a suggested explanation, 196.--"Four hundred and thirty years," 197-8.