THE PATRIARCHS, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, 132; Isaac, 132; Jacob, 133; At Bethel, 133; At Mahanaim, 137; The struggle of prayer; The points and grounds of this conflict; The law of prevailing prayer, 140; Jacob and Joseph, 143; Developments of personal character, 144; Joseph in Egypt, 146; The hand of God in this history: Seen in the sufferings of the innocent, 155; Seen in overruling sin for good, 158; The purposes of God in locating Israel in Egypt, 160; Ancient Egyptian history and life confirms Moses, 162; Special passages considered: Going down into Sheol, Gen. 37: 35, 166; Jacob’s benedictions upon his sons, Gen. 49, 168; The Scepter of Judah, Gen. 49: 10, 169; The less readable portions of Genesis, 171; Close of Genesis, 172. CHAPTER XII. EXODUS 173; The oppression, 173; Moses, 175; His great mission, 179; The ten plagues, 185: These plagues supernatural, 187; Several of them specially adapted to Egypt, 189; The case of the magicians, 190; The shape of the demand upon Pharaoh to let the people go, 193; The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, 194; History of the case, 194; What is said of God’s purpose in it, 203; Light on this case from God’s revealed character, 204. CHAPTER XIII. THE PASSOVER, 205; Consecration of all first-born, 207; The long route to Canaan, 209; The march and the pursuit, 210; The guiding pillar of cloud and of fire, 211; The locality of the Red Sea crossing, 215. CHAPTER XIV. THE HISTORIC CONNECTIONS OF MOSES WITH PHARAOH AND EGYPT, 216. ♦CHAPTER XV. THE EVENTS NEAR AND AT SINAI, 222; The manna, 222; Rephidim; water by miracle, 225; The battle with Amalek, 229; Jethro, 230; The Scenes at Sinai, 232; The national covenant; The giving of the law, 232; The moral law, given from Sinai, 236; To be distinguished from “the statutes and judgments,” 236; The commandments considered severally; 1. 238; 2. 239; 3. 241; 4. 241; 5. 243; 6–9. 243; 10. 245; Progress in the revelations of God to man, 246. CHAPTER XVI. THE HEBREW THEOCRACY, 251; The supreme power, 251; The powers of Jehovah’s Vicegerent, 253; The General Assembly and their Elders, 254; The scope afforded for self-government, democracy, 255; The fundamental principles of this system, 258; Its union of Church and State, 259; Its principles and usages in regard to war, with notice of the war-commission against the doomed Canaanites, 261; The grant of Canaan, and the command to extirpate the Canaanites, 262.