by
LOIZEAUX BROTHERS
Neptune, New Jersey
FIRST EDITION 1880
TWENTY-SEVENTH PRINTING 1965
LOIZEAUX BROTHERS, Inc., PUBLISHERS
A Nonprofit Organization, Devoted to the Lord's Work
and to the Spread of His Truth
NEPTUNE, NEW JERSEY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The writer cannot suffer a new edition of this volumeto issue from the press without a line or two of deepthankfulness to the Lord for His grace in making use ofsuch a feeble instrumentality in the furtherance of Histruth and the edification of His people. Blessed be Hisname, when He takes up a book or a tract, He can make iteffectual in the accomplishment of His gracious ends. Hecan clothe with spiritual power pages and paragraphswhich to us might seem pointless and powerless. May Hecontinue to own and bless this service, and His name shallhave all the praise.
C. H. M.
Dublin, April, 1862
As several persons in America have, without any authoritywhatever from me, undertaken to publish my four[1] volumesof "Notes," I deem it my duty to inform the readerthat I have given full permission to Messrs. LoizeauxBrothers to publish an edition of those books in suchform as they shall consider most suitable.
C. H. MACKINTOSH.
6 West Park Terrace, Scarborough,
May 1st, 1879.
In manuscript and proof-sheets, we have been travelingover a deeply instructive and most interesting portionof the Word of God-THE BOOK OF EXODUS.
Redemption by blood occupies a prominent place therein,—itcharacterizes the book. God's many mercies to Hisredeemed, in the display of His power, the patience of Hislove, and the riches of His grace, flow from it. The greatquestion of Israel's relationship to God is settled by theblood of the lamb. It changes their condition entirely.Israel within the blood-sprinkled door-posts was God'sredeemed, blood-bought people.
God being holy, and Israel guilty, no happy relationshipcould exist between them till judgment had been accomplished.Sin must be judged. A happy friendship onceexisted between God and man, on the ground of innocence;but sin having entered and snapped the link asunder, therecan be no reconciliation but through the full expression ofthe moral judgment of God against sin. We can only have"life through death." God is the God of holiness, and Hemust judge sin. In saving the sinner, He condemns hissin. The cross is the full and perfect expression of this.
Typically, this was the great question, on "the eveningof the fourteenth day of the first month"; namely, How canGod exempt from judgment, and receive into His favor, thosewhom His holiness condemns? To this most solemn question,there was but one answer that would satisfy the demandsof the God of holiness, and that was the blood of theLamb of His own providing. "When I see the blood, Iwill pass over you." This settled the all-important question.[vi]It was one of life or death, of deliverance or judgment.The blood-sprinkled door-post was a perfect answerto all the claims of holiness, and to all the need of thecongregation. All was settled now. God was glorified,sin