. The training of the Chosen people. the care ofGod for her was deepened. Of course, one mightpoint to the murmurings soon after the Red Sea hadbeen passed, repeated often in the wanderings, toshow that the great event did not awaken any abid-ing gratitude: Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses,But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Bed Sea. Ps 106 : 7. Still, when we look at Hebrew history in the large,we see that a new sense of the goodness of God stoleinto the heart of Israel. Jehovah, who had savedHis people by a migh
. The training of the Chosen people. the care ofGod for her was deepened. Of course, one mightpoint to the murmurings soon after the Red Sea hadbeen passed, repeated often in the wanderings, toshow that the great event did not awaken any abid-ing gratitude: Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses,But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Bed Sea. Ps 106 : 7. Still, when we look at Hebrew history in the large,we see that a new sense of the goodness of God stoleinto the heart of Israel. Jehovah, who had savedHis people by a mighty hand, loved them. They hada firm basis of confidence in Him. How beautifullythis is brought out in the book of Deuteronomy:When thou goestforth to battleagainst thine en-emies, and seesthorses, and chari-ots, and a peoplemore than thou,thou shalt not beafraid of them,; for Egyptian chariots. Jehovah thy God is with thee, who brought thee upout of the land of Egypt (Deut. 20: 1). It is interesting to see how those two great proph-. 30 Old Testament History ets of consolation, Ezekiel and Hosea, use the factthat God brought Israel out of Egypt as the convin-cing reason for believing that He will not forsakeHis people, but always deal with them in mercy andgoodness. Indeed, there is much to show that thedeliverance from Egypt occupied a place in the lifeand thought of the Hebrew people like that occu-pied by the cross of Christ in the later Jews always regarded the exodus as a supremedisclosure of the love of God. And the light of thegreat event still irradiates the hearts of the Hebrewsin every land in which the passover is kept. And naturally enough Israels attitude toward thisevent, which so enlarged her conception of God anddeepened her confidence in Him, came to be the meas-ure of sin and of righteousness. A great moral ex-perience, especially a great deliverance, always car-ries with it a new moral standard. That is why theprophets so often introduce their
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