the sacredness of toil, and the Divine Spirit is recognised
even in the gift of handicraft.

A tragic and shameful failure teaches them, more painfully than any
symbolic system of curtains and secret chambers, how little fitted they
are for the immediate intercourse of heaven. And yet the ever-present
cloud, and the shrine in the heart of their encampment, assure them that
God is with them of a truth.

Could any better system be imagined by which to convert a slavish and
superstitious multitude into a nation at once humble and pure and
gallant--a nation of brothers and of worshippers, chastened by a genuine
sense of ill desert and of responsibility, and yet braced and fired by
the conviction of an exalted destiny?

To do this, and also to lead mankind to liberty, to rescue them from
sensuous worship, and prepare them for a system yet more spiritual, to
teach the human race that life is not repose but warfare, pilgrimage and
aspiration, and to sow the seeds of beliefs and expectations which only
an atoning Mediator and an Incarnate God could satisfy, this was the
meaning of the Exodus.

THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE.

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THE PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH. By the Rev. C. J.
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THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH. Vol. II. Completing the
Work. By the Rev. GEORGE ADAM SMITH, M.A.

THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW. By the Rev. J. MONRO
GIBSON, D.D., London, Author of "The Mosaic Era," etc.

THE BOOK OF EXODUS. By the Very Rev. G. A. CHADWICK,
D.D., Dean of Armagh.

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GEORGE ADAM SMITH, M.A., Aberdeen.

THE PASTORAL EPISTLES By the Rev. ALFRED PLUMMER,
D.D., Master of University College, Durham.

THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. By the
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THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. By the Rev. Professor
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THE EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN. By the Right Rev. W.
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