• Books linked by conjunction "And:" Scripture history a connected whole.

• So is secular history organic: "Philosophy of history." The Pentateuch being a still closer unity, Exodus rehearses the descent into Egypt.

• Heredity: the family of Jacob.

• Death of Joseph. Influence of Egypt on the shepherd race.

• A healthy stock: good breeding. Goethe's aphorism.

• Ourselves and our descendants.

• In Exodus, national history replaces biography.

• Contrasted narratives of Jacob and Moses. Spiritual progress from Genesis to Exodus.

• St. Paul's view: Law prepares for Gospel, especially by our failures.

• This explains other phenomena: failures in various circumstances, of innocence in Eden; of an elect family; now of a race, a nation.

• Israel, failing with all advantages, needs a Messiah. Faith justifies, in Old Testament as in New.

• Scripture history reveals God in this life, in all things.

• True spirituality owns God in the secular: this is a gospel for our days.

• Early prosperity: its dangers: political supports vain.

• Joseph forgotten. National responsibilities: despotism.

• Nations and their chiefs. Our subject races.

• The Church and her King: imputation. Pharaoh precipitates what he fears.

• Egypt and her aliens: modern parallels.

• Tyranny is tyrannous even when cultured.

• Our undue estrangement from the fallen: Jesus a brother. Toil crushes the spirit

• Israel idolatrous. Religious dependence.

• Direct interposition required. Bitter oppression.

• Pharaoh drops the mask. Defeated by the human heart. The midwives.

• Their falsehood. Morality is progressive.

• Culture and humanity.

• Religion and the child.

• Importance of the individual.

• A man versus "the Time-spirit."

• The parents of Moses.

• Their family: their goodly child.

• Emotion helps faith, 30.

• The ark in the bulrushes.

• Pharaoh's daughter and Miriam.

• Guidance for good emotions: the Church for humanity.

• God employs means.

• Value of endowment. Moses and his family. "The reproach of Christ."

• An impulsive act.

• Impulses not accidents. The hopes of Moses.

• Moses and his brethren. His flight.

• Energy in disaster.

• Disinterested bravery. Parallels with a variation.

• The Unseen a refuge. Duty of resisting small wrongs. His wife.

• A lonely heart.

• Death of Raamses. Misery continues.

• The cry of the oppressed.

• Discipline of Moses.

• How a crisis comes.

• God hitherto unmentioned. The Angel of the Lord.

• An unconsuming fire.

• Inquiry: reverence. God finds, not man.

• "Take off thy shoe." "The God of thy father."

• Immortality. "My people," not saints only.

• The good land. The commission.

• God with him. A strange token, 53.

• Why Moses asked the name of God: idolatry: pantheism.

• A progressive revelation.

• Jehovah. The sound corrupted. Similar superstitions yet.

• What it told the Jews. Reality of being.

• Jews not saved by ideas. Streams of tendency. The Self-contained. We live in our past.

• And in our future.

• Yet Jehovah not the impassive God of Lucretius.

• The Immutable is Love. This is our help.

• Human will is not paralysed.

• The teaching of St. Paul. All this is practical.

• This gives stability to all other revelations. Our own needs.

• God comes where He sends.

• The Providential man. Prudence.

• Sincerity of demand for a brief respite.

• God has already visited them. By trouble He transplants.

• The "borrowing" of jewels.

• Scripture is impartial: Josephus.

• Hindrance from his own people. The rod.

• The serpent: the leprosy.

• "I am not eloquent."

• God with us. Aaron the Levite.

• Responsibility of not working. The errors of Moses.

• Power of fellowship. Vague fears.

• With his brother, Moses will go. The Church.

• This craving met by Christ.

• Family affection. Examples.

• Fidelity to his employer. Reticence.

• Resemblance to story of Jesus. He is the Antitype of all experiences.

• Counterpoint in history. "Israel is My son."

• A neglected duty Zipporah. Was she a helpmeet?

• Domestic unhappiness. History v. myth.

• The failures of the good.

• Men of destiny are not irresponsible.

• His first followers: a joyful reception.

• Spiritual joy and reaction.

• Moses at court again. Formidable.

• Power of convictions but also of tyranny and pride. Menephtah: his story.

• Was the Pharaoh drowned? The demand of Jehovah.

• The refusal.

• Is religion idleness? Hebrews were taskmasters.

• Demoralised by slavery. They are beaten.

• Murmurs against Moses. He returns to God. His remonstrance.

• His disappointment. Not really irreverent.

• Use of this abortive attempt.

• The word Jehovah known before: its consolations now.

• The new truth is often implicit in the old.

• Discernment more needed than revelation. "Judgments."

• My people: your God.

• The tie is of God's binding.

• Fatherhood and sonship.

• Faith becomes knowledge. The body hinders the soul.

• We are responsible for bodies. Israel weighs Moses down.

• We may hold back the saints.

• The pedigree.

• Indications of genuine history.

• "As a god to Pharaoh."

• We also.

• The assertion offends many.

• Was he a free agent? When hardened. A.V. incorrect.

• He resists five plagues spontaneously. The last five are penal.

• Not "hardened" in wickedness, but in nerve. A.V. confuses three words: His heart is

  (a) "hardened,"

  (b) it is made "strong"

  (c) "heavy."

• Other examples of these words.

• The warning implied.

• Moses returns with the signs.

• The functions of miracle.

• Their vast range.

• Their relation to Pantheism, Idolatry, Philosophy.

• And to the gods of Egypt. Their retributive fitness.

• Their arrangement.

• Like our Lord's, not creative.

• God in common things.

• Some we inflict upon ourselves. Yet rationalistic analogies fail.

• Duration of the conflict.

• The probable scene.

• Extent of the plague. The magicians. Its duration.

• Was Israel exempt? Contrast with first miracle of Jesus.

• Submission demanded. Severity of plague.

• Pharaoh humbles himself.

• "Glory over me." Pharaoh breaks faith.

• Various theories. A surprise. Magicians baffled.

• What they confess.

• "Rising up early."

• Bodily pain. Beetles or flies? "A mixture."

• Goshen exempt. Pharaoh suffers. He surrenders.

• Respite and treachery. Would Moses have returned?

• First attack on life. Animals share our fortunes.

• The new summons. Murrain.

• Pharaoh's curiosity.

• No warning, yet Author manifest. Ashes of the furnace.

• Suffering in the flesh. The magicians again. Pharaoh's heart "made strong."

• Dares not retaliate.

• Expostulation not mockery.

• God is wronged by slavery.

• Civil liberty is indebted to religion. "Plagues upon thine heart."

• A mis-rendering: why he was not crushed.

• An opportunity of escape. The storm.

• Ruskin upon terrors of thunderstorm.

• Pharaoh confesses sin.

• Moses intercedes. The weather in history. Job's assertion

• Moses encouraged.

• Deliverances should be remembered. A sterner rebuke. Locusts in Egypt.

• Their effect. The court interferes. Yet "their hearts hardened" also.

• Infatuation of Pharaoh. Parallel of Napoleon.

• Women and little ones did share in festivals.

• A gentle wind. Locusts. Another surrender.

• Relief. Our broken vows.

• Menephtah's sun-worship.

• Suddenness of the plague. Concentrated narrative.

• Darkness represents death.

• The Book of Wisdom upon this plague.

• Isaiah's allusions. The Pharaoh's character.

• Altercation with Moses.

• This chapter supplements the last. The blow is known to be impending. Uses of its delay.

• Israel shall claim wages. The menace.

• Parallel with St. John.

• Birthday of a nation. The calendar.

• "The congregation." The feast is social.

• The nation is based upon the family. No Egyptian house escapes.

• National interdependence. The Passover a sacrifice.

• What does the blood mean? Rationalistic theories. Harvest festivals.

• The unbelieving point of view: what theories of sacrifice were then current? "A sacrifice was a meal."

• Human sacrifices. The Passover "unhistorical." Kuenen rejects this view.

• Phenomena irreconcilable with it.

• What is really expressed? Danger even to Jews.

• Salvation by grace. Not unbought.

• The lamb a ransom. All firstborn are forfeited. Tribe of Levi.

• Cash payment. Effect on Hebrew literature.

• Its prophetic import.

• The Jew must co-operate with God: must also become His guest.

• Sacred festivals. Lamb or kid. Four days reserved.

• Men are sheep. Heads of houses originally sacrifice. Transition to Levites in progress under Hezekiah, complete under Josiah.

• Unleavened bread. The lamb. Roast, not sodden.

• Complete consumption. Judgment upon gods of Egypt.

• The blood a token unto themselves. On their lintels.

• The word "pass-over."

• Domestic teaching.

• Many who ate the feast perished. Aliens might share.

• The blow falls. Pharaoh was not "firstborn": his son "sat upon his throne."

• The scene.

• The demands of Israel. St. Augustine's inference.

• The route.

• Their cattle, a suggested explanation.

• "Four hundred and thirty years."

• The consecration of the firstborn.

• The Levite. "They are Mine."

• Joy is hopeful. Tradition?

• Phylacteries. The ass.

• The Philistines. No spiritual miracle.

• Education.

• Joseph influenced Moses.

• His faith.

• Circumstances overcome by soul. God in the cloud.

• Hebrew poetry and modern.

• Stopped on the march.

• Pharaoh presumes.

• The panic.

• Moses. Prayer and action. "Self-assertion"?

• The midnight march.

• The lost army.

• Impressions deepened. "They believed in Jehovah." So the faith of the apostles grew.

• A song remembered in heaven. Its structure.

• The women join. Instruments. Dances.

• God the Deliverer, not Moses. "My salvation."

• Gratitude. Anthropomorphism. "Ye are gods." "Jehovah is a Man--of war."

• The overthrow.

• First mention of Divine holiness.

• An inverted holiness.

• "Thou shalt bring them in."

• Disillusion. Marah.

• A universal danger.

• Prayer, and the use of means.

• "A statute and an ordinance." Such compacts often repeated. The offered privilege.

• It is still enjoyed.

• "The Lord for the body." Elim.

• We too fear, although Divinely guarded.

• They would fain die satiated.

• Relief tries them as want does.

• The Sabbath. A rebuke.

• Moses is zealous. His "meekness."

• The glory appears.

• Quails and manna.

• Their course of life is changed.

• A drug resembles manna.

• The supernatural follows nature.

• They must gather, prepare, be moderate.

• Nothing over and no lack. Socialistic perversion.

• Socialism. Christ in politics.

• Manna is a type. When given.

• An unearthly sustenance.

• What is spirituality? Christ the true Manna.

• Universal, daily, abundant.

• The Sabbath. The pot of manna.

• A greater strain. What if Israel had stood it?

• They murmured against Moses. The position of Aaron. An exaggerated outcry.

• Witnesses to the miracle. The rock in Horeb.

• The rod. Privilege is not acceptance.

• A water-raid.

• God's sheep must become His warriors. War.

• Joshua. The rod of God.

• A silent prayer. Aaron and Hur must join in it.

• So now. But the army must fight.

• "The Lord my banner." Unlike a myth.

• Gentiles in new aspect. Church may learn from secular wisdom.

• Little is said of Zipporah: Jethro's pleasure.

• A Gentile priest recognised. Religious festivity.

• Jethro's advice: its importance.

• Divine help does not supersede human gift.

• Narrative is also allegory. Danger of arbitrary fancies. Example from Bunyan. Scriptural teaching.

• Some resemblances are planned: others are reappearances of same principle.

• So that these are evidential analogies, like Butler's.

• Others appear forced. "I called My Son out of Egypt" refers to Israel.

• But the condescending phrase promised more, and the subsequent coincidence is significant.

• Truths cannot all be proved like Euclid's.

• Sinai and Pentecost. The place. Ras Sufsâfeh. God speaks in nature.

• Moses is stopped; the people must pledge themselves. Dedication services.

• An appeal to gratitude, and a promise.

• "A peculiar treasure." "A kingdom and priests."

• The individual, and Church order. "On eagles' wings."

• Israel consents. The Lord in the cloud. Manifestations are transient.

• Precautions. The trumpet.

• "The priests." A plébiscite. Contrast between Law and Gospel: Methodius.

• Theophanies.

• None like this.

• What the law did. It could not justify. It reveals obligation.

• It convicts, not enables. It is an organic whole. And a challenge.

• The Spirit enables: love is fulfilment of law. Luther's paradox.

• Law and Gospel contrasted. Its spiritual beauty: two noble failures.

• The Jewish arrangement of the Commandments. St. Augustine's. The Anglican. An equal division.

• Their experience of God.

• God and the first table. The true object of adoration: men must adore. Agnosticism.

• God and the second table.

• Law appeals to noble motives.

• Monotheism and a real God.

• False creeds attractive. Spiritualism. Science indebted to Monotheism.

• Unity of nature a religious truth. Strength of our experimental argument.

• Informal apostacy. Luther's position. Scripture. The Chaldeans.

• Animal pleasure.

• The remedy: "Thou shalt have ... Me."

• Imagery not all idolatry. The subtler paganisms.

• Spiritual worship, like a Gothic building, aspires: images lack expansiveness.

• God is jealous.

• The shadow of love.

• Visiting sins on children.

• Part of vast beneficent law.

• Gospel in law.

• Meaning of "in vain."

• Jewish superstition. Where swearing is wholly forbidden.

• Fruitful and free use of God's name.

• Law of Sabbath unique. Confession of Augsburg. Of Westminster.

• Anglican position. St. Paul.

• The first positive precept. Love not the abolition of the law.

• Property of our friends. The word "remember." The story of creation.

• The manna. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.

• Christ's freedom was that of a Jew. "Sabbath for man."

• Our help, not our fetter. "My Father worketh."

• Bridge between duty to God and to neighbour.

• Father and child.

• "Whosoever hateth not." Christ and His mother. Its sanction.

• Who is neighbour? Ethics and religion.

• Science and morals.

• A Divine creature. Capital punishment.

• Justice forbids act: Christ forbids desire. Sacredness of body.

• Human body connects material and spiritual worlds. Modifies, while serves.

• Marriage a type.

• Assailed by communism, by Rome. Various specious pleas.

• Laws of community binding.

• None may judge his own case, St. Paul enlarges the precept.

• Importance of words. Various transgressions.

• Slander against nations, against the race. Love.

• The list of properties.

• The heart. The law searches.

• A remarkable code. The circumstances.

• Moses fears: yet bids them fear not.

• Presumption v. awe. He receives an expanded decalogue, an abridged code.

• Laws should educate a people; should not outrun their capabilities.

• Five subdivisions.

• Images again forbidden.

• Splendour and simplicity. An objection.

• Modesty.

• The Hebrew slave. The seventh year. Year of jubilee. His family.

• The ear pierced. St. Paul's "marks of the Lord." Assaults.

• The Gentile slave.

• The female slave.

• Murder and blood-fiends.

• Parents. Kidnappers.

• Eye for eye. Mitigations of lex talionis.

• Vicious cattle.

• Negligence: indirect responsibility: various examples.

• Theft.

• Disconnected precepts. No trace of systematic revision. Certain capital crimes.

• Abuses have recoiled against religion.

• Sorcerers are impostors, but they existed, and do still.

• Moses could not leave them to enlightened opinion. Propagated apostacy.

• Traitors in a theocracy.

• When shall witchcraft die?

• "Ye were strangers."

• A fruitful principle. Morality not expediency.

• Cruelty often ignorance: Moses educates.

• The widow. The borrower.

• Other precepts.

• An enemy's cattle. A false report.

• Influence of multitude: the world and the Church.

• Favour not the poor.

• Other precepts. "A kid in his mother's milk."

• A bold transition: the Angel in Whom is "My Name."

• Not a mere messenger.

• Nor the substitute of Exo 33:2-3.

• Parallel verses.

• The code is accepted, written, ratified with blood.

• Exclusion and admittance. The elders see God: Moses goes farther. Theophanies of other creeds.

• How could they see God?

• Moses feels not satisfaction, but desire.

• His progress is from vision to shadow and a Voice.

• We see not each other.

• St. Augustine.

• The vision suits the period: not post-Exilian.

• Contrast with revelation in Christ.

• The God of Sinai will inhabit a tent. His other tabernacles.

• The furniture is typical. Altar of incense postponed.

• The ark enshrines His law and its sanctions.

• The mercy-seat covers it.

• Man's homage. The table of shewbread.

• The golden candlestick (lamp-stand).

• Use in Hebrews. Plato.

• Not a model, but an idea. Art.

• Provisional institutions.

• The ideal in creation, 388.--In life.

• "Temple" an ambiguous word.

• "Curtains of the Tabernacle."

• Other coverings.

• The boards and sockets.

• The bars. The tent.

• Position of veil and of the front.

• The altar.

• The quadrangle.

• General effect.

• Their import.

• The drawers. "Coat." Head-tires. Robe of the ephod. Ephod. Jewels.

• Breastplate. Urim and Thummim. Mitre. Symbolism.

• Universal desire and dread of God.

• Delegates.

• Scripture. First Moses.

• His family passed over. The double consciousness expressed.

• Messianic priesthood.

• Why consecrate at all?

• Moses officiates. The offerings.

• Ablution, robing, anointing.

• The sin-offering.

• "Without the camp."

• The burnt-offering.

• The peace-offering ("ram of consecration").

• The wave-offerings.

• The result.

• The impalpable in nature.

• "The golden altar."

• Represents prayer. Needs cleansing.

• A census not sinful. David's transgression. The half-shekel. Equality of man.

• Christ paid it.

• Its employment.

• Behind the altar. Purity of priests.

• Made of the mirrors.

• Their ingredients. All the vessels anointed.

• Forbidden to secular uses.

• Modern analogies.

• Secular gifts are sacred.

• The Sabbath. The tables and "the finger of God."

• Sin of the people; of Aaron. God rejects them.

• Intercession. The Christian antitype.

• The first concession. The angel.

• "The Tent of the Meeting."

• To know is to desire to know. A fit season. The greater Name.

• The covenant renewed. The tables. The skin of his face shone.

• Lessons.

• The people obey.

• The forming of the nation: review.