"  Sin  shall  not  have' dominion  over  you,  because  ye  are  not  under  the  law,  but
under  grace. "  The  Spirit  of  God  here  typified  in  the  water  is  the  Spirit  of  holi-
ness, and  it  springs  for  us  from  that  work  of  Christ  which  bears  most  complete
witness  to  the  holiness  of  God  :  "But  Thou  art  holy,"  is  the  utterance  of  the
patient  Sufferer,  and  the  explanation  of  that  forsaking  of  the  Righteous  One
^vhich  in  the  ways  of  God  had  not  its  equal  in  mystery.  But  the  Holy  One
must  dwell  among  the  praises  of  Israel.  (Ps.  xxii.)

*The  resemblance  of  the  scene  at  Kadesh  to  that  in  Repbidim  is  surely  intended  to  be
noticed,  and  brings  the  more  into  notice  the  r>oints  of  contra,st.  May  not  the  substantial  typi-
cal identity  account  for  the  apostle's  words,  "Thev  drank  of  that  spiritual  rock  \\\&i  foUmved
them  :  and' that  rock  was  Christ"?  while  the  difl'erence  between  the  first  smitinq  and  the  after-
epenkiiip  is  thus  brought  out.  For  the  Ijeliever,  the  abiding  Spirit  is  thus  witness  that  atone-
ment is  made  once  for  all.  That  the  rod  used  was  here  Aaron's  rod  of  priesthood,  not  Moses  ,
with  which  he  had  done  signs  in  Egypt,  the  connection  seems  to  show,  as  well  as  the  fact  that
It  was  taken  from  before  the  Lord.
3.  2.  2.
NUMBERS.
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2.  (14-21.)
The  oppo-
sition or
Edom  (the
flesh)  and
the  way  of
progress.
k  cf.  Gal.  5.
17.
I  cf.  Gal.  3.
3.
