Exod.  1.  16,


in  the  Abrahamic  family,  all  pointing  to
the  promised  land,  where,  accorduig  to
the  Abrahamic  promise,  all  the  nations
were  to  be  blessed  in  Abraham  and  his
"  seed."  Truly,  though  we  know  not
how  distinctly,  all  this  pointed  to  the
chosen  "Seed,"  the  Messiah.  Made
mention  of  the  departing — The  great
IsraeUte-Egyptian  statesman  hold  the
faith  of  his  fathers,  and  predicted  the
Canaanite  future.  Commandment —
Thereby  giving  his  faith  a  tangible  form.
23-29.  Example  of  Moses.  An  age
of  prophetic  silence  and  national  suffer-
ing intervenes,  when  £aith  again  re-
vives in  Moses,  initiated  by  the  £sdth
of  liis  parents.  And  this  was  a  new
era  of  faith,  when,  from  merely  pre-
dieting^  the  illustrious  leader,  Moses,
proceeded  to  take  possession  of  the  Pal-
estinian inheritance.  Faith  went  forth
in  heroic  enterprise,  and  a  new  dispen-
sation was  founded,  second  in  great-
ness only  to  the  advent  of  the  Messiali.
And,  as  it  were  in  one  list,  our  author
gathers  under  Moses  all  the  heroic  ex-
amples until  the  conquest  of  Canaan.
23.  Parents — "fhe  word  is  hterally
in  the  masculine— /a^^»;  and  Ben-
gel  conjectures  that  the  hiding  wpi
really  done  by  his  father  Amram,  aod
his  paternal  grandfather,  (not  his  ma-
ternal, who  was  Levi  himself,  but  his
paternal,)  Kohath:  and  Kohath  was
living  at  Moses's  birth.  But  Wet^teiu
has  abundantly  shown  ihsktfaihers  was
often  a  Greek  term  for  parents,  Were
not  afraid — So  but  that  they  braved
the  king's  commandment  to  destroy
all  tlio  male  children.
24.  Refused — Not,  probably,  by  any
definite  act  of  refiisaij  but  by  preferring
the  cfuiso  and  the  company  of  the
bondsmen  over  those  of  the  courtion.
A.  D.  64.
CHAPTER  XI.
