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countries  by  their  modern  names^  ages  before
any  such  names  existed.  But  it  is  certain  that
the  jews  are  never  spoken  of  by  the  term  the
remnant i  but  with  a  view  to  the  time  of  their
restoration;  when  as  St  Paul  and  Isaiah  agree,
a  remnant  shall  be  saved :  and  moreover,  it  is
expressly  said  that  this  is  the  second  time  that
God  will  work  a  deliverance  and  an  Exodus
for  Israel,  in  the  majesty  of  his  power, — for
he  will  set  his  hand  to  it  with  energy  divine,
and  demonstratively  prove  the  wondrous  act
his  own.  "  And  he  shall  set  up  an  ensign
for  the  nations,  and  shall  assemble  the  out-
casts of  Israel,  and  gather  together  the  dis-
persed of  Jadah,  from  the  four  corners  of  the
earth.  And  the  Lord  shall  utterly  destroy
the  tongue  of  the  Egyptian  Sea,*  and  with
his  mighty  wind  shall  he  shake  his  hand
over  the  river,  and  shall  smite  it  in  the  seven

*  Bishop  Lowth  says,  here  is  a  plain  allusion  to  the  passage
of  the  Red  Sea,  which  was  so  divided  by  a  mighty  wind.  —  But

the  circumstances  here  mentioned  all  relate  to  Egypt ;  tl-~
River  Nile,  which  had  anciently  seven  streams,  and  the  Island
of  Delta,  which  resembles  a  tongue,  The  mystical  Egypt
(Rev.  xi.  8,)   I  rather  apprehend  is  here  meant,  and  the  de*

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streams,  and  make  men  go  over  dry  shod.
