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EXODUS. <1xposition anl:I 'J11omiletics BY REV. GEORGE R.A. WLINSON, M.A., C.UIDEY PROFESSOR OF A:SCIENT HISTORY IN THE t:lil>'EllSITY OF OXFOIID, .!.:S:> C.L'ION OF CANTERBURY.
~omilies b!l llatious ~utbors. REV. J. ORR, M.A., B.D. REV. D. YOUNG, B.A. REV. C. A, GOODHART, M.A. REV. J. URQUHART, M.A. REV. H. T. ROBJOH~S, B.A.
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( The rights of translatitm and o/ reproduction are resen,ed.) THE
BO·OK OF EXODUS.
EXPOSITION.
deviated The " parallelism of the members.' CHAPTER XV which from the middle of the last centwy ha.i Vers. 1-21.-THE SoNG oFMosEs. Full of been acknowledged to be the only real gratitude, joy, and happiness-burning with a rhythmical law of Hebrew poetry, with its desire to vent in devotional utterance of the three forms of "synonymous, antithetic, and most fitting kind, his intense and almost synthetic ( or verbal) parallelism" is here ecstatic feelings, Moses, who to his other found almost as distinctly marked as in any of extraordinary powers, added the sublime gift the later compositions. At the same time, a of poesy, composed, shortly after the passage, greater lyrical freedom is observable than was a hymn of praise, and sang it with a chorns afterwards practised. The song divides itself of the people 118 a thanksgiving to the primarily into two parts :-the fust ( vers. Almighty. The hymn itself is generally 1-12) retrospective, celebrating the recent allowed to be one of transcendent beauty. deliverance; the second (vers. 13--18) pro- Deriving probably the general outline of its spective, describing the effects that would flow form and character of its rhythm from the from the deliverance in future time. The Egyptian poetry of the time, with which verbs indeed of the second part are at first Moses had been familiar from his youth, it gro.mmatical preterite; ; but ( as Kalisch ob- embodies ideas purely Hebrew, and remark- ~ervesJ they are " according to the sense, able for grandeur, simplicity, and depth. futures "-their past form denoting only that Naturally, 118 being the first outburst of the the prophet sees the events revealed to him poetical genius of the nation, and also con- as though they were already accomplished. nected with the very commencement of the Hence, after a time, he slitles into the future national life, it exerted the most important (ver. 16). The second part is continuous, and formative influence upon the later Hebrew has no marked break : the first sub-divide~ poetic style, furnishing a pattern to the later into three unequal portions, each commencing lyric poets, from which they but rarely with an address to Jeho,·ah, and each term.i-
EXODUS-11. s 2 THE BOOK OF EXODUS. (en. xv. 1 -11.