7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt. The Israelites saw the miraculous plagues and ignorantly wondered at
them: their designs of love, their deep moral and spiritual lessons, and their
revelation of the divine power and justice they were unable to perceive. A long
sojourn among idolaters had blunted the perceptions of the chosen family, and
cruel slavery had ground them down into mental sluggishness. They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies. The sin of the understanding leads on to
the sin of the memory. What is not understood will soon be forgotten. People
feel little interest in preserving husks; if they knew nothing of the inner
kernel they will take no care of the shells. But provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. To fall out at starting was a bad sign. Those who did
not begin well can hardly be expected to end well. Israel is not quite out of
Egypt, and yet she begins to provoke the Lord by doubting his power to deliver,
and questioning his faithfulness to his promise.
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