This chapter supplements the last. The blow is known to be impending. Uses of its delay, 167.—Israel shall claim wages. The menace, 168.—Parallel with St. John, 169–70. CHAPTER XII. THE PASSOVER, xii. 1–28. Birthday of a nation. The calendar, 171.—“The congregation.” The feast is social, 172.—The nation is based upon the family. No Egyptian house escapes, 173.—National interdependence. The Passover a sacrifice, 174.—What does the blood mean? Rationalistic theories. Harvest festivals, 175.—The unbelieving point of view: what theories of sacrifice were then current? “A sacrifice was a meal,” 176.—Human sacrifices. The Passover “unhistorical.” Kuenen rejects this view, 177.—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.