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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:15

Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward! I. FORWARD !— GOD 'S CONSTANT INJUNCTION TO HIS CHURCH . The law of Christian life is advance. God never brings his Church or people into positions from which retreat is necessary, or in which advance is impossible. We may bring ourselves into false positions of this kind, but God never leads us into them. In proportion as we surrender ourselves to his guidance, we may depend on being conducted always "forward."... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:15-16

Wherefore criest thou to me? It is evident that Moses, while boldly encouraging the people, himself needed the support and consolation of prayer. The SyriActs translator shows us that he divined the fact aright, when he without authority intruded the words, "Moses then cried to Jehovah." The form of the Divine reply to his prayer seems to indicate a certain amount of reproach, as if Moses himself had become unduly anxious. Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward . The... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:15-18

1 . The Israelites are to make themselves ready for a forward movement ( Exodus 14:15 ); 2 . Moses is to stretch oat his rod over the Red Sea, and it will be divided; 3 . The Israelites are then to make the passage on dry ground; 4 . The Egyptians are to follow, and then honour is to be gotten upon them; and they are to know by the result that God is indeed Jehovah. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:15-18

The reward of faith. God rewarded the faith and trust of Moses by a revelation of the manner of that deliverance which he so confidently expected. Hitherto the manner had been involved in mystery; and it is scarcely likely that any one had even conjectured it as a possible thing. There was no precedent for such an interference with the laws of nature; and the thought could scarcely occur to the imagination of any one. But, to reward his faithful servant, to quiet his anxiety, and give... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:15-18

Obedience necessary to salvation. I. THE DUTY OF THOSE WHO ARE LEADERS AMONG THEIR BRETHREN IN TIMES OF TRIAL . 1 . There is a time for action as well as prayer: "Wherefore criest thou unto me?" 2 . To speak to them that they go forward. 3 . To do what God bids them in opening up their brethren's way. "Lift thou up thy rod." The lifting up of the rod seemed a vain thing, but it clove a path for Israel through the heart of the sea. Our service for... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:17

I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians . Here, and here only, are the hearts of the Egyptians generally said to have been "hardened." Whatever meaning we attach to the expression, there will be no more difficulty in applying it to them than to Pharaoh. They had made themselves partakers in the monarch's guilt by mustering in hot haste when he summoned them, and had allowed themselves to revel in the anticipation of plunder and carnage ( Exodus 15:9 ). Under such circumstances, the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:18

The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord . All Egypt would learn the destruction of the host, and the circumstances under which it occurred, whose miraculous nature could not be concealed. And the consequence would be a wide recognition of the superior might of Jehovah, the God of Israel, over that of any of the Egyptian deities. More than this the Egyptians were not likely to admit under any circumstances. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:19

The angel of God . The Divine Presence, which manifested itself in the pillar of the cloud, is called indifferently "the Lord" ( Exodus 13:21 ; Exodus 14:24 ), and "the Angel of God"—just as the appearance to Moses in the burning bush is termed both "God" and "the angel of the Lord" ( Exodus 3:2 ). Which went before — i.e. ; "which ordinarily, and (so to speak) habitually preceded the camp" ( Exodus 13:21 ; Psalms 78:14 ). And stood behind them . Took up a fixed station... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 14:19-20

Light to the friend, darkness to the foe. We are told that as the Israelites were about to cross the Red Sea, the fiery-cloudy pillar changed its position, and came between them and the Egyptians. It was the self-same pillar, but it wore a very different aspect to friends and foes respectively. "It was," we read, "a cloud of darkness to them (the Egyptians), but it gave light to these (the camp of Israel)." We should notice that the same double aspect belongs to all God's manifestations of... read more

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