In Exodus xii. 13 we read: "And the blood shall be to you for a token
on the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you." God did not
say, When I see your good deeds; when I see how you have prayed, and
wept, and cried. No; but "When I see the blood I will pass over you.
The blood shall be a token." What was it saved those men? Was it their
good resolutions or their works? It was the blood. "When I see the
blood I will pass over you." Very likely when some of the lords, and
dukes, and great men rode through Goshen, and saw the Israelites
sprinkling their dwellings, they said they never saw such foolishness,
and that they were spoiling their houses. They were to sprinkle the
door-posts and lintels of their houses with the blood, but not the
threshold. God would not have