Notes on the book of Exodus

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Charles Henry Mackintosh. Notes on the book of Exodus

Notes on the book of Exodus

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

PREFATORY NOTE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

NOTES

THE BOOK OF EXODUS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II. 1–10

CHAPTER II. 11–25

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTERS V. & VI

CHAPTERS VII.-XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTERS XXI.-XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTERS XXVIII. & XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTERS XXXIII. & XXXIV

CHAPTERS XXXV.-XL

FOOTNOTES:

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Charles Henry Mackintosh

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Now, it is well to see that it is ever thus with the reasonings of man's sceptic mind. God is entirely shut out; yea, the truth and consistency thereof depend upon His being kept out. The death-blow to all scepticism and infidelity is the introduction of God into the scene. Till He is seen, they may strut up and down upon the stage with an amazing show of wisdom and cleverness; but the moment the eye catches even the faintest glimpse of that blessed One, they are stripped of their cloak, and disclosed in all their nakedness and deformity.

In reference to the king of Egypt, it may assuredly be said, he did "greatly err," not knowing God or His changeless counsels. He knew not that, hundreds of years back, before ever he had breathed the breath of mortal life, God's word and oath—"two immutable things"—had infallibly secured the full and glorious deliverance of that very people whom he was going, in his wisdom, to crush. All this was unknown to him, and therefore all his thoughts and plans were founded upon ignorance of that grand foundation-truth of all truths, namely, that GOD IS. He vainly imagined that he, by his management, could prevent the increase of those concerning whom God had said, "They shall be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore." His wise dealing, therefore, was simply madness and folly.

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