1. When Israel went out of Egypt. The song
begins with a burst, as if the poetic fury could not be restrained, but
overleaped all bounds. The soul elevated and filled with a sense of divine
glory cannot wait to fashion a preface, but springs at once into the middle of
its theme. Israel emphatically came out of Egypt, out of the population among
whom they had been scattered, from under the yoke of bondage, and from under
the personal grasp of the king who had made the people into national slaves.
Israel came out with a high hand and a stretched-out arm, defying all the power
of the empire, and making the whole of Egypt to travail with sore anguish, as
the chosen nation was, as it were, born out of its midst. The house of Jacob from a people of strange language. They had gone down into Egypt as a
single family—“the house of Jacob”—and, though they had multiplied greatly, they were still so united,
and were so fully regarded by God as a single unit, that they are rightly
spoken of as the house of Jacob. They were as one in their willingness to leave
Goshen; numerous as they were, not a single individual stayed behind. Unanimity
is a pleasing token of the divine presence, and one of its sweetest fruits.
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