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Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers

Name: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers
Author: Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910

作者：Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910
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EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS AND NUMBERS
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
GENESIS
CONTENTS
THE VISION OF CREATION (Genesis i. 26--ii. 3)
HOW SIN CAME IN (Genesis iii. 1-15)
EDEN LOST AND RESTORED (Genesis iii. 24; Revelation xxii. 14)
THE GROWTH AND POWER OF SIN (Genesis iv. 3-16)
WHAT CROUCHES AT THE DOOR (Genesis iv. 7, R.V.)
THE COURSE AND CROWN OF A DEVOUT LIFE (Genesis v. 24)
THE SAINT AMONG SINNERS (Genesis vi. 9-22)
THE SIGN FOR MAN AND THE REMEMBRANCER FOR GOD (Genesis ix. 8-17)
AN EXAMPLE OF FAITH (Genesis xii. 1-9)
ABRAM AND THE LIFE OF FAITH
GOING FORTH (Genesis xii. 5)
COMING IN
THE MAN OF FAITH (Genesis xii. 6, 7)
LIFE IN CANAAN (Genesis xii. 8)
THE IMPORTANCE OF A CHOICE (Genesis xiii. 1-13)
ABBAM THE HEBREW (Genesis xiv. 13)
GOD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAM (Genesis xv. 5-18)
THE WORD THAT SCATTERS FEAR (Genesis xv. 1)
FAITH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (Genesis xv. 6)
A PETULANT WISH (Genesis xvii. 18)
THE INTERCOURSE OF GOD AND HIS FRIEND
THE SWIFT DESTROYER (Genesis xix. 15-26)
FAITH TESTED AND CROWNED (Genesis xxii. 1-14)
THE CROWNING TEST AND TRIUMPH OF FAITH
JEHOVAH-JIREH (Genesis xxii. 14)
GUIDANCE IN THE WAY (Genesis xxiv. 27)
THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM (Genesis xxv. 8)
A BAD BARGAIN (Genesis xxv. 27-34)
POTTAGE _versus_ BIRTHRIGHT (Genesis xxv. 34)
THE FIRST APOSTLE OF PEACE AT ANY PRICE (Genesis xxvi. 12-25)
THE HEAVENLY PATHWAY AND THE EARTHLY HEART (Genesis xxviii. 10-22)
MAHANAIM: THE TWO CAMPS (Genesis xxxii. 1, 2)
A FORGOTTEN VOW (Genesis xxxv. 1)
THE TRIALS AND VISIONS OF DEVOUT YOUTH (Genesis xxxvii. 1-11)
MAN'S PASSIONS AND GOD'S PURPOSE (Genesis xxxvii. 23-36)
GOODNESS IN A DUNGEON (Genesis xl. 1-15)
JOSEPH, THE PRIME MINISTER (Genesis xli. 38-48)
RECOGNITION AND RECONCILIATION (Genesis xlv. 1-15)
JOSEPH, THE PARDONER AND PRESERVER
GROWTH BY TRANSPLANTING (Genesis xlvii. 1-12)
TWO RETROSPECTS OF ONE LIFE (Genesis xlvii. 9; Genesis xlviii. 15, 16)
THE SHEPHERD, THE STONE OF ISRAEL (Genesis xlix. 24)
A CALM EVENING, PROMISING A BRIGHT MORNING (Genesis l. 14-26)
JOSEPH'S FAITH (Genesis l. 25)
A COFFIN IN EGYPT (Genesis l. 26)
THE VISION OF CREATION
HOW SIN CAME IN
EDEN LOST AND RESTORED
1. _Man had an Eden and lost it._
2. _Heaven restores the lost Eden_.
3. _Heaven surpasses the lost Eden_.
THE GROWTH AND POWER OF SIN
WHAT CROUCHES AT THE DOOR
WITH, BEFORE, AFTER
1. 'Enoch walked _with_ God.'
THE COURSE AND CROWN OF A DEVOUT LIFE
1. The noblest life.
THE SAINT AMONG SINNERS
THE SIGN FOR MAN AND THE REMEMBRANCER FOR GOD
AN EXAMPLE OF FAITH
ABRAM AND THE LIFE OF FAITH
II
GOING FORTH
COMING IN
II
THE MAN OF FAITH
1. _God's bit-by-bit leading of us._
2. _Obedience often brings us into very difficult places._
3. _The presence of enemies brings the presence of God._
How superb the confidence of 'Unto thy seed will I give _this_ land.'
LIFE IN CANAAN
1. _All life should blend earthly and heavenly._
2. _The family should be a church._
3. _The service to God should be more costly than to ourselves._
4. _Building for God lasts, for selves perishes._
THE IMPORTANCE OF A CHOICE
ABRAM THE HEBREW
1. Men become Christians by a great emigration.
GOD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAM
THE WORD THAT SCATTERS FEAR
1. The call to conquer fear.
2. The ground of the call in the Revelation of God as Shield.
II
2. The possession of God is enough for earth.
This is what He promises--
3. To possess God is enough for heaven.
FAITH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
WAITING FAITH REWARDED AND STRENGTHENED BY NEW REVELATIONS
A PETULANT WISH
THE INTERCOURSE OF GOD AND HIS FRIEND
II
THE SWIFT DESTROYER
FAITH TESTED AND CROWNED
THE CROWNING TEST AND TRIUMPH OF FAITH
II
JEHOVAH-JIREH
2. So, note again on what conditions He provides them.
GUIDANCE IN THE WAY
2. Now a word about the manner of the guidance.
THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM
1. The tranquil close of a life.
A BAD BARGAIN
POTTAGE VERSUS BIRTHRIGHT
I. Deal with the narrative.
Not to tell it over again, but bring out the following points:--
II. Broad General Lessons.
1. The Choice.--Birthright _versus_ Pottage.
2. The grim absurdity of the choice.
3. How well the bargain worked at first, and what came of it at last.
THE FIRST APOSTLE OF PEACE AT ANY PRICE
THE HEAVENLY PATHWAY AND THE EARTHLY HEART
MAHANAIM: THE TWO CAMPS
THE TWOFOLD WRESTLE--GOD'S WITH JACOB AND JACOB'S WITH GOD
A FORGOTTEN VOW
1. _The lesson of possible negligence_.
3. _The essentials to communion and service_.
THE TRIALS AND VISIONS OF DEVOUT YOUTH
MAN'S PASSIONS AND GOD'S PURPOSE
GOODNESS IN A DUNGEON
JOSEPH, THE PRIME MINISTER
RECOGNITION AND RECONCILIATION
JOSEPH, THE PARDONER AND PRESERVER
II
GROWTH BY TRANSPLANTING
TWO RETROSPECTS OF ONE LIFE
1. We have here two possible views of life.
THE SHEPHERD, THE STONE OF ISRAEL
A CALM EVENING, PROMISING A BRIGHT MORNING
JOSEPH'S FAITH
A COFFIN IN EGYPT
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
EXODUS, LEVITICUS AND NUMBERS
CONTENTS
THE BOOK OF EXODUS
FOUR SHAPING CENTURIES (Exodus i. 1-14)
DEATH AND GROWTH (Exodus i. 6, 7)
THE ARK AMONG THE FLAGS (Exodus ii. 1-10)
THE BUSH THAT BURNED, AND DID NOT BURN OUT (Exodus iii. 2)
THE CALL OF MOSES (Exodus iii. 10-20)
A LAST MERCIFUL WARNING (Exodus xi. 1-10)
THOUGHT, DEED, WORD (Exodus xiii. 9)
A PATH IN THE SEA (Exodus xiv. 19-31)
THE SHEPHERD AND THE FOLD (Exodus xv. 13)
THE ULTIMATE HOPE (Exodus xv. 17)
MARAH (Exodus xv. 23-25)
THE BREAD OF GOD (Exodus xvi. 4-12)
JEHOVAH NISSI (Exodus xvii. 15)
GERSHOM AND ELIEZER (Exodus xviii. 3, 4)
THE IDEAL STATESMAN (Exodus xviii. 21)
THE DECALOGUE:--I. MAN AND GOD (Exodus xx. 1-11)
THE DECALOGUE:--II. MAN AND MAN (Exodus xx. 12-21)
THE FEAST OF INGATHERING IN THE END OF THE YEAR (Exodus xxiii. 16)
THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE (Exodus xxv. 30)
THE GOLDEN LAMPSTAND (Exodus xxv. 31)
THE NAMES ON AARON'S BREASTPLATE (Exodus xxviii. 12,29)
THE ALTAR OF INCENSE (Exodus xxx. 1)
RANSOM FOR SOULS--I. (Exodus xxx. 12)
RANSOM FOR SOULS--II. (Exodus xxx. 15)
THE GOLDEN CALF (Exodus xxxii. 1-8, 30-35)
THE SWIFT DECAY OF LOVE (Exodus xxxii. 15-26)
THE MEDIATOR'S THREEFOLD PRAYER (Exodus xxxiii. 12-23)
GOD PROCLAIMING HIS OWN NAME (Exodus xxxiv. 6)
SIN AND FORGIVENESS (Exodus xxxiv. 7)
BLESSED AND TRAGIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS (Exodus xxxiv. 29; Judges xvi. 20)
AN OLD SUBSCRIPTION LIST (Exodus xxxv. 21)
THE COPIES OF THINGS IN THE HEAVENS (Exodus xl. 1-16)
THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS
THE BURNT OFFERING A PICTURE AND A PROPHECY (Lev. i. 1-9)
STRANGE FIRE (Lev. x. 1-11)
THE FIRST STAGE IN THE LEPER'S CLEANSING (Lev. xiv 1-7)
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (Lev. xvi. 1-19)
THE CONSECRATION OF JOY (Lev. xxiii. 33-44)
SOJOURNERS WITH GOD (Lev. xxv. 23)
GOD'S SLAVES (Lev. xxv. 42)
THE KINSMAN REDEEMER (Lev. xxv. 48)
THE OLD STORE AND THE NEW (Lev. xxvi. 10)
EMANCIPATED SLAVES (Lev. xxvi. 13)
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
THE WARFARE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE (Num. iv. 23)
THE GUIDING PILLAR (Num. ix. 16)
HOBAB (Num. x. 29)
THE HALLOWING OF WORK AND OF REST (Num. x. 35, 36)
MOSES DESPONDENT (Num. xi. 14)
AFRAID OF GIANTS (Num. xiii. 17-33)
WEIGHED, AND FOUND WANTING (Num. xiv. 1-10)
MOSES THE INTERCESSOR (Num. xiv. 19)
SERVICE A GIFT (Num. xviii. 7)
THE WATERS OF MERIBAH (Num. xx. 1-13)
THE POISON AND THE ANTIDOTE (Num. xxi. 4-9)
BALAAM (Num. xxii. 5)
AN UNFULFILLED DESIRE (Num. xxiii. 10; xxxi. 8)
THE BOOK OF EXODUS
FOUR SHAPING CENTURIES
DEATH AND GROWTH
THE ARK AMONG THE FLAGS
THE BUSH THAT BURNED, AND DID NOT BURN OUT
THE CALL OF MOSES
A LAST MERCIFUL WARNING
THE PASSOVER: AN EXPIATION AND A FEAST, A MEMORIAL AND A PROPHECY
I. The ritual of the protecting blood.
II. The festal meal on the sacrifice.
THOUGHT, DEED, WORD
II. The great deliverance is to be ever present in practical life.
III. The great deliverance is to be ever on our lips.
2. The other two are incomplete without this vocal testimony.
A PATH IN THE SEA
II. The lessons from the words themselves.
THE SHEPHERD AND THE FOLD
THE ULTIMATE HOPE
II. The form which that ultimate future assumes.
MARAH
THE BREAD OF GOD
IV. The manna was typical of Christ.
JEHOVAH NISSI
I. First, realise for whose cause you fight.
GERSHOM AND ELIEZER
I. 'A stranger here.'
II. Now let me say a word about the other child's name.
THE DECALOGUE: I--MAN AND GOD
THE DECALOGUE: II.--MAN AND MAN
THE FEAST OF INGATHERING IN THE END OF THE YEAR
I. Think of the past as still living in and shaping the present.
II. Notice some specific forms of this reaping and ingathering.
III. Make a personal reference to ourselves.
THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE
THE GOLDEN LAMPSTAND
I. The office manwards of the Church and of the individual Christian.
This golden lampstand teaches us--
II. How this office is to be discharged.
THE NAMES ON AARON'S BREASTPLATE
THREE INSCRIPTIONS WITH ONE MEANING
I. The high priest's mitre.
II. I come to my next text--the horses' bells.
III. And so I come to my third text--the perfected saints' foreheads.
THE ALTAR OF INCENSE
I. This altar shows us what prayer is.
II. This altar shows us where prayer stands in the Christian life.
There is one more thought here--
III. The altar of incense shows us how prayer is to be cultivated.
RANSOM FOR SOULS--I.
RANSOM FOR SOULS--II.
THE GOLDEN CALF
THE SWIFT DECAY OF LOVE
THE MEDIATOR'S THREEFOLD PRAYER
GOD PROCLAIMING HIS OWN NAME
I. The answer to the request for a sensuous manifestation.
II. The answer to the desire to see God's glory.
III. The answer to a great sin.
SIN AND FORGIVENESS
I. The characteristics of human sins.
II. The divine treatment of them.
I. The characteristics of human sins.
II. The divine treatment of sins.
BLESSED AND TRAGIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS
III. Thirdly, the strong man made weak is unconscious of his weakness.
AN OLD SUBSCRIPTION LIST
I. We have set forth here the true motive of acceptable service.
II. We get here the measure of acceptable work.
THE COPIES OF THINGS IN THE HEAVENS
THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS
THE BURNT OFFERING A PICTURE AND A PROPHECY
STRANGE FIRE
THE FIRST STAGE IN THE LEPER'S CLEANSING
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
I. The perfect removal of all sin is thus symbolised.
THE CONSECRATION OF JOY
SOJOURNERS WITH GOD
I. Here is the lesson of God's proprietorship and our stewardship.
II. We have the teaching of the transiency of our stay here.
III. We have here also the teaching of trust.
GOD'S SLAVES
I. The ground of God's rights. 'I brought you forth.'
II. Our servitude because of our redemption. 'Ye are My servants.'
THE KINSMAN REDEEMER
I. The kinsman redeemer under the old law.
Job xix. 25, 'I know that my Goel liveth....'
II. Our Kinsman-Redeemer.
THE OLD STORE AN THE NEW
EMANCIPATED SLAVES
I. Jesus gives freedom from the slavery of sin.
II. Jesus gives freedom from a slavish relation to God.
III. Christ gives deliverance from servility to men.
IV. Christ gives us freedom from the power of circumstances.
But Christ gives us--
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
THE WARFARE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE
I. Think of the foes.
II. The weapons of this warfare.
III. Note the temper, or disposition, of the Christian warrior-servant.
IV. The Relieving Guard.
THE GUIDING PILLAR
I. Note, first, the double form of the guiding pillar.
II. Note the guidance of the pillar.
HOBAB
I. The venture of faith.
II. Hobab suggests to us, secondly--
III. Lastly, our story suggests to us--
THE HALLOWING OF WORK AND OF REST
III. Lastly, we have here a pattern of the temper for hours of repose.
MOSES DESPONDENT
I. What men need in their guide.
II. The impossibility of finding this in men.
III. The failures of human leaders prophesy the true Leader.
AFRAID OF GIANTS
WEIGHED, AND FOUND WANTING
MOSES THE INTERCESSOR
I. The ground of the divine forgiveness.
II. The persistency of the divine pardon.
III. The manner of the divine forgiveness.
IV. The vehicle of the divine forgiveness.
SERVICE A GIFT
I. Our priesthood is a gift of God's love.
1. They are His gift--
2. They are a blessing.
THE WATERS OF MERIBAH
THE POISON AND THE ANTIDOTE
BALAAM
I. How much knowledge and love of good there may be in a bad man.
III. The absurdity and unreasonableness of unrighteousness.
IV. The wages of unrighteousness.
AN UNFULFILLED DESIRE
Balaam had evidently much knowledge. Look at these points--
II. Balaam is an example of convictions which remain inefficacious.
III. Balaam is an instance of wishes that are never fulfilled.