EXODUS.

CHAPTER I.

Q. IN what condition were the Children of Israel after the death of Joseph ?

A. They multiplied and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.— v. 7.

Q. How were the Israelites treated by the new King of Egypt?

A. He set Task-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens.-v. 11.

Q. Did this oppression prevent their multiplying? A. The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. v. 14.

Q. Have we any confirmation of this in the New Testament?

A. When the time of the Promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt.-Acts vii. v. 17.

Q. Did Pharaoh adopt more desperate and cruel measures to prevent their increase?

A. He commanded all the male children to be destroyed. v. 17. 22.

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Q. What confirmation have we of these circumstances in the New Testament?

A. St. Stephen tells the Jews that another King arose, which knew not Joseph. The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our Fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.-Acts vii. 19.

CHAPTER II.

Q. How did God prevent the malice of Pharaoh who intended to destroy Israel?

A. By causing him to cherish and bring up, in his own court, that Hebrew Child who afterwards caused his destruction, and delivered the Children of Israel.

Q. How was he preserved?

A. When bis Mother had hid him three months, and could hide him no longer, she took for him an ark or basket of bulrushes, daubed with slime and pitch, and laid the child in it, in the flags, by the river side.-v. 23.

Q. What mention is made of this fact in the New Testament?

A. St. Paul says, By Faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his Parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the King's commandment.Heb. xi. 23.

Q. How was the child delivered from this dan

ger?

A. The Daughter of Pharaoh saw him, and had compassion on him, and gave him to his own Mother, to be nursed at her own cost.-v. 5, 6, 9.

Q. How did the courage and spirit of Moses, prompting him to deliver the Israelites from their oppressions, first shew itself?

A. When Moses was grown, he looked on their burdens, and spied an Egyptian smiting one of his Brethren (of Israel) and he slew him.-v. 11, 12.

Q. What was the consequence of this act? A. His ungrateful Countryman reproached him with it, and Pharaoh sought to slay him; so that

he was forced to flee into the land of Midian.v. 14. 25.

Q. Do we find a remarkable confirmation of this part of Moses' history in the New Testament?

A. St. Paul tells us that, by Faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect to the recompence of the reward by Faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King: for he endured as seeing Him that is invisible.-Heb. xi. 25, 26, 27.

Q. What further allusions are there in the New Testament to the important History of Moses?

A. St. Stephen tells his Countrymen that when another King arose, Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his Father's House three months: and when he was cast out Pharaoh's Daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own Son.- Acts vii. 21.

Q. Is there any mention made in the New Testament of the learning and wisdom of Moses?

A. St. Stephen, in the Acts, says that Moses was learned in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.-Acts vii. 22.

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Q. Are we any where informed of the age Moses, when he began to deliver the Israelites by the action just related?

A, In the Acts, St. Stephen says, that when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his Brethren, the Children of Israel; and seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian-Acts vii. 23, 24.

Q. Is this circumstance of his being reproached

for that deed by his own countrymen, mentioned likewise in the New Testament?

A. In the same place it is said, "He supposed his Brethren would have understood how that God, by his hand, would deliver them; but they understood not: and the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again; saying, Sirs, ye are Brethren, why do ye wrong one to another? But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a Ruler and a Judge over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian.-Acts vii. 25, 26, 27, 28.

Q. Did Moses marry in the land of Midian?

A. He married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, Priest of Midian, by whom he had two sons; - as related in the Acts.-Exod. ii. 21. and iii. 1.

CHAPTER III.

Q. How long did he dwell there, and how was he occupied?

A. He dwelt there forty years, and kept the flock of his Father-in-law.—v. 1.

Q. How did God first reveal himself to Moses? A. As he led his flock to Horeb, the Mountain of God, in the Desert; the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush, which was not consumed.-v. 1, 2.

Q. Is this miraculous appearance of God to Moses noticed in the New Testament?

A. St. Stephen says, There appeared to him, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an Angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire, in a bush.-Acts vii. 30.

Q. How did Moses act on this occasion? A. He said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.-v. 3.. Q. Did God then speak to him?

A. When God saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him by name, out of the bush ; and bade him draw not nigh; saying to him, "put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.-v. 4, 5.

Q. How does God describe Himself to Moses? A. He says, I am the God of thy Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face: for he was afraid to look upon God.-v. 6.

Q. Can the doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead be proved from this passage?

A. Our Saviour says, As touching the Resurrection of the Dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the Dead, but of the Living.-Matt. xxii. 31, 32.

Q. Does the Lord at this time, promise to deliver the Israelites from their bondage?

A. He said, surely I have seen the affliction of my People which are in Egypt, and I am come down to deliver them, and to lead them into a good land, flowing with milk and honey.-v. 7. 8. Q. How does God purpose to effect this?

A. By sending Moses to Pharaoh.-v. 10. Come now, therefore, I will send thee unto Pharaoh.-v. 11.

Q. Can you illustrate this part of Moses' history by any passages in the New Testament?

St. Stephen, in the Acts, says, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying, I am the God of thy Father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.-Then Moses trem