ffled, 136.--What they
confess, 137.

THE FOURTH PLAGUE, viii. 20-32.

"Rising up early," 137.--Bodily pain. Beetles or flies? "A mixture,"
138--Goshen exempt. Pharaoh suffers. He surrenders, 139.--Respite and
treachery. Would Moses have returned? 140.

CHAPTER IX.

THE FIFTH PLAGUE, ix. 1-7.

First attack on life. Animals share our fortunes, 141. The new summons.
Murrain, 142.--Pharaoh's curiosity, 143.

THE SIXTH PLAGUE, ix. 8-12.

No warning, yet Author manifest. Ashes of the furnace, 144.---Suffering
in the flesh. The magicians again. Pharaoh's heart "made strong,"
145.--Dares not retaliate, 146.

THE SEVENTH PLAGUE, ix. 13-35.

Expostulation not mockery, 146-7.--God is wronged by slavery,
147.--Civil liberty is indebted to religion. "Plagues upon thine heart,"
148.--A mis-rendering: why he was not crushed, 149.--An opportunity of
escape. The storm, 150.--Ruskin upon terrors of thunderstorm,
151.--Pharaoh confesses sin, 152.--Moses intercedes. The weather in
history. Job's assertion, 153.

CHAPTER X.

THE EIGHTH PLAGUE, x. 1-20.

Moses encouraged, 154.--Deliverances should be remembered. A sterner
rebuke. Locusts in Egypt, 155.--Their effect. The court interferes. Yet
"their hearts hardened" also, 156--Infatuation of Pharaoh. Parallel of
Napoleon, 157.--Women and little ones did share in festivals, 158.--A
gentle wind. Locusts. Another surrender, 159.--Relief. Our broken vows,
160.

THE NINTH PLAGUE, x. 21-29.

Menephtah's sun-worship, 161.--Suddenness of the plague. Concentrated
narrative, 162.--Darkness represents death, 163.--The Book of Wisdom
upon this plague, 164-5.--Isaiah's allusions. The Pharaoh's character,
165.--Altercation with Moses, 166.

CHAPTER XI.

THE LAST PLAGUE ANNOUNCED, xi. 1-10.

This chapter supplements the last. The blow is known to be impending.
Uses of its delay, 167.--Israel shall claim wages. The menace,
168.--Parallel with St. John, 169-70.

CHAPTER XII.

THE PASSOVER, xii. 1-28.

Birthday of a nation. The calendar, 171.--"The congregation." The feast
is social, 172.--The nation is based upon the family. No Egyptian house
escapes, 173.--National interdependence. The Passover a sacrifice,
174.--What does the blood mean? Rationalistic theories. Harvest
festivals, 175.--The unbelieving point of view: what theories of
sacrifice were then current? "A sacrifice was a meal," 176.--Human
sacrifices. The Passover "unhistorical." Kuenen rejects this view,
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