ce already sang after the redemption from
Egypt. Thus it resounds still more loudly in the view of the antitypal
redemption, by which the fundamental definition of the divine nature in
Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7, and David's praise of divine mercy in Ps. ciii., are
fully realized. "He will return and have compassion upon us (according
to the promise in Deut. xxx. 3), will overcome our iniquities (which,
like a cruel tyrant, like Pharaoh of old, subjected us to their power,
Ps. xix. 14), and cast all their sins into the depth of the sea," as
once He cast the proud Egyptians, Exod. xv. 5-10. "Thou wilt give truth
to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as Thou hast sworn unto our fathers
from the days of old."

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ANTE-NICENE CHRISTIAN LIBRARY.

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