Required reading
Continue Genesis in Notes on the Bible in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading up to '[390] Exod. v. to xiv. inclusive. Concerning Pharaoh’s hardness of heart and obstinacy in refusing to let the children of Israel go, and the manner of God’s dealing with him.'
My summary
Today we read the last of Edwards' notes on Genesis and begin the notes on Exodus, including notes about:
(i) Ishmael and Isaac;
(ii) Jacob;
(iii) Joseph;
(iv) Moses' childhood and call.
What grabbed me
I enjoyed the comparison of Moses in the ark and the church: 'Moses in the ark upon the waters is a type of the church. The church of God is like a babe, in infirmity and weakness, in helplessness of itself, and dependence upon a superior help, and in that the members of it are all in a spiritual sense become as little children. And it is like a babe upon the waters floating through all manner of changes, dangers, and troubles, and yet upheld and preserved in Christ the ark. He was especially a type of the church of the Jews in their oppressed condition in Egypt. It was a wonder they were not swallowed up by their enemies, and drowned and lost in their afflictions, and the multitude of their adversaries. Moses in the water and not drowned, is much such another type as the bush all in a flame and not burnt. He was also herein a type of every elect soul, who is naturally all overwhelmed in sin, and misery, and danger, and is redeemed or delivered, as Moses was taken out of the water.'
In Christ, we are safe upon the waters.
Next week's reading
Continue Exodus in Notes on the Bible in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading up to '[112] Exod. xxiv. 18. “And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.'
Now it's your turn
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