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5. Israel’s wilderness-sojourn a type of the Christian race, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13.
1. I would not that ye should be ignorant Or that ye should ignore what you so well know.
All This word occurs five times in the passage, (1 Corinthians 10:1-4,) and stands in contrast with the many of 1 Corinthians 10:5. All started from Egypt, but only Caleb and Joshua, with perhaps a few others, arrived in Canaan. So in the last chapter all run, but only one wins.
Under the cloud The miraculous pillar of cloud by day, which was a pillar of fire by night, in which “the Lord went before” Israel. Exodus 13:20-22. In the passage of the Red Sea this cloud removed, and so went behind the camp of the Israelites as to hang between them and the Egyptians. The cloud thus between the two shed at once darkness upon the Egyptians and light upon Israel. In passing from front to rear of the Hebrew camp it may have so passed over it that the people were literally under the cloud. At any rate they were under its protection. Of course it was not a water cloud, and no rain or sprinkling can be supposed to have dropped from it.
Passed through the sea In safety. Exodus 14:29-30.
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