52. But made his own people to go forth like sheep. The contrast is striking, and ought never to have been forgotten by the
people. The wolves were slain in heaps; the sheep were carefully gathered and
triumphantly delivered. The poor serfs became honored people, while their
oppressors were humbled before them. The people of Israel were defenseless in
themselves as sheep, but they were safe under their great Shepherd; they left
Egypt as easily as a flock leaves one pasture for another. And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. Knowing nothing of the way by their own
understanding or experience, they were nevertheless rightly directed, for the
all-wise God knew every spot of the wilderness.
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