7.--Phenomena irreconcilable with it, 178-9. What is really expressed?
Danger even to Jews, 179.--Salvation by grace. Not unbought, 180.--The
lamb a ransom. All firstborn are forfeited. Tribe of Levi, 181.--Cash
payment. Effect on Hebrew literature, 182.--Its prophetic import,
183.--The Jew must co-operate with God: must also become His guest,
184.--Sacred festivals. Lamb or kid. Four days reserved, 185.--Men are
sheep. Heads of houses originally sacrifice. Transition to Levites in
progress under Hezekiah, complete under Josiah, 186.--Unleavened bread.
The lamb. Roast, not sodden, 187.--Complete consumption. Judgment upon
gods of Egypt, 188.--The blood a token unto themselves. On their
lintels, 189.--The word "pass-over," 190.--Domestic teaching, 191.--Many
who ate the feast perished. Aliens might share, 192.

THE TENTH PLAGUE, xii. 29-36.

The blow falls. Pharaoh was not "firstborn": his son "sat upon his
throne," 193.--The scene, 194.--The demands of Israel. St. Augustine's
inference, 195.

THE EXODUS, xii. 37-42.

The route, 195.--Their cattle, a suggested explanation, 196.--"Four
hundred and thirty years," 197-8.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN, xiii, 1.

The consecration of the firstborn, 199.--The Levite. "They are Mine,"
200.--Joy is hopeful. Tradition? 201.--Phylacteries. The ass, 202.--The
Philistines. No spiritual miracle, 203.--Education, 204.

THE BONES OF JOSEPH, xiii. 19.

Joseph influenced Moses, 204.--His faith, 205.--Circumstances overcome
by soul. God in the cloud, 206.--Hebrew poetry and modern, 207.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE RED SEA, xiv. 1-31.

Stopped on the march, 208.--Pharaoh presumes, 209.--The panic,
210.--Moses. Prayer and action. "Self-assertion"? 211.--The midnight
march, 212.--The lost army, 213.

ON THE SHORE, xiv. 30, 31.

Impressions deepened. "They believed in Jehovah." So the faith of the
apostles grew, 214.

CHAPTER XV.

THE SONG OF MOSES, xv. 1-22.

A song remembered in heaven. Its structure, 216-17.--The women join.
Instruments. Dances, 218. God the Deliverer, not Moses. "My salvation,"
219.--Gratitude. Anthropomorphism. "Ye are gods." "Jehovah is a Man--of
war," 220-2.--The overthrow, 222.--First mention of Divine holiness,
223.--An inverted holiness, 224.--"Thou shalt bring them in," 225.

SHUR, xv. 22-27.

Disillusion. Marah, 226.--A universal danger, 227.--Prayer, and the use
of means, 228.--"A statute and an ordinance." Such compacts often
re