NOTES _on the book of_ EXODUS _by_ C. H. MACKINTOSH "_He led them forth by the right way_" LOIZEAUX BROTHERS _Neptune, New Jersey_ FIRST EDITION 1880 TWENTY-SEVENTH PRINTING 1965 LOIZEAUX BROTHERS, Inc., PUBLISHERS _A Nonprofit Organization, Devoted to the Lord's Work and to the Spread of His Truth_ NEPTUNE, NEW JERSEY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION The writer cannot suffer a new edition of this volume to issue from the press without a line or two of deep thankfulness to the Lord for His grace in making use of such a feeble instrumentality in the furtherance of His truth and the edification of His people. Blessed be His name, when He takes up a book or a tract, He can make it effectual in the accomplishment of His gracious ends. He can clothe with spiritual power pages and paragraphs which to us might seem pointless and powerless. May He continue to own and bless this service, and His name shall have all the praise. _C. H. M. Dublin, April, 1862_ PREFATORY NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION As several persons in America have, without any authority whatever from me, undertaken to publish my four[1] volumes of "Notes," I deem it my duty to inform the reader that I have given full permission to Messrs. LOIZEAUX BROTHERS to publish an edition of those books in such form as they shall consider most suitable. C. H. MACKINTOSH. _6 West Park Terrace, Scarborough, May 1st, 1879._ [1] Now six. In manuscript and proof-sheets, we have been traveling over a deeply instructive and most interesting portion of the Word of God-THE BOOK OF EXODUS. Redemption by blood occupies a prominent place therein,--it characterizes the book. God's many mercies to His redeemed, in the display of His power, the patience of His love, and the riches of His grace, flow from it. The great question of Israel's relationship to God is settled by the blood of the lamb. It changes their condition entirely. Israel within the blood-sprinkled door-posts was God's redeemed, blood-bought people. God being holy, and Israel guilty, no happy relationship could exist between them till judgment had been accomplished. Sin must be judged. A happy friendship once existed between God and man, on the ground of innocence; but sin having entered and snapped the link asunder, there can be no reconciliation but through the full expression of the moral judgment of God against sin. We can only have "life through death." God is the God of holiness, and He must judge sin. In saving the sinner, He condemns his sin. The cross is the full and perfect expression of this.