The Expositor's Bible: The Book of ExodusChadwick, G. A. (George Alexander)
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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
Chadwick, G. A. (George Alexander)
Bible. Exodus -- Commentaries
What the law did. It could not justify. It reveals obligation, 280.—It
convicts, not enables. It is an organic whole. And a challenge,
281.—The Spirit enables: love is fulfilment of law. Luther’s paradox,
283.—Law and Gospel contrasted. Its spiritual beauty: two noble
failures, 283.—The Jewish arrangement of the Commandments. St.
Augustine’s. The Anglican. An equal division, 284–6.
THE PROLOGUE, xx. 2.
Their experience of God, 286.—God and the first table. The true object
of adoration: men must adore. Agnosticism, 287.—God and the second
table, 288.—Law appeals to noble motives, 289.
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, xx. 3.
Monotheism and a real God, 289.—False creeds attractive. Spiritualism.
Science indebted to Monotheism, 290.—Unity of nature a religious truth.
Strength of our experimental argument. 291.—Informal apostacy. Luther’s
position. Scripture. The Chaldeans, 292.—Animal pleasure, 293.—The
remedy: “Thou shalt have ... Me,” 294.
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT, xx. 4–6.
Imagery not all idolatry. The subtler paganisms, 295. Spiritual worship,
like a Gothic building, aspires: images lack expansiveness, 296.—God is
jealous, 297.—The shadow of love, 298. Visiting sins on children, 299,
300.—Part of vast beneficent law, 300–2.—Gospel in law, 302.
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT, xx. 7.
Meaning of “in vain,” 302.—Jewish superstition. Where swearing is
wholly forbidden, 303.—Fruitful and free use of God’s name, 304–5.
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 8–11.
Law of Sabbath unique. Confession of Augsburg. Of Westminster,
305.—Anglican position. St. Paul, 306.—The first positive precept.
Love not the abolition of the law, 307.—Property of our friends. The
word “remember.” The story of creation, 305.—The manna. Isaiah,
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 309.—Christ’s freedom was that of a Jew. “Sabbath
for man,” 310.—Our help, not our fetter. “My Father worketh,” 311.
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 12.
Bridge between duty to God and to neighbour, 312.—Father and child,
313.—“Whosoever hateth not.” Christ and His mother. Its sanction, 314.
THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 13.
Who is neighbour? Ethics and religion, 315–16.—Science and morals,
317.—A Divine creature. Capital punishment, 318.
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 14.
Justice forbids act: Christ forbids desire. Sacredness of body,
319.—Human body connects material and spiritual worlds. Modifies, while
serves, 320.—Marriage a type, 321.
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 15.
Assailed by communism, by Rome. Various specious pleas, 322.—Laws of
community binding, 323.—None may judge his own case, St. Paul enlarges
the precept, 324.
THE NINTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 16.
Importance of words. Various transgressions, 325.—Slander against
nations, against the race. Love, 326–7.
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 17.
The list of properties, 328.—The heart. The law searches, 329.
THE LESSER LAW, xx. 18–xxiii. 33.
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