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201 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 40.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… name Jehovah, by which He had at the first manifested Himself, when entering into covenant with Abraham. ( Genesis 15:7 ) It was, “I am that I am”—words betokening His …
202 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 40.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
“But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee.” ( Exodus 4:1 )
203 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 43.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, could have prompted him to refuse such a request, and that in face of all the signs and wonders by which the mission of Moses was accredited. Thus …
204 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 46.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , 23 ). Jehovah demanded freedom for the people, because “Israel is my son, even my firstborn,” and He threatened, in case of Pharaoh’s refusal, “to slay” his “son,” even …
205 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 48.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that “Jehovah had visited” His people came not upon them as strange or incredible. More than that, their faith was mingled with humiliation and worship.
206 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 52.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… was Jehovah, the only true and the living God, far above all power of men and of gods. ( Exodus 9:14 ) This was one aspect of the judgments which were to burst upon Egypt …
207 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 53.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… which Jehovah manifested Himself and His power, and by which He achieved both the deliverance of Israel and His judgments upon Pharaoh and Egypt. And here …
208 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 53.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
“Who is Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go” ( Exodus 5:2 ),
209 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 53.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah was God, and that he had commissioned His servants, since they wielded His power. The only question still possible was, whether the gods whom Pharaoh …
210 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 54.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah (that is, of His Deity and claims), professed to regard the demand of Moses as a mere pretense to procure a series of holidays for the people. They were …
211 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 54.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah against Moses and Aaron! So rapidly do the results of a faith which cometh only by the hearing of the ear give way before discouragements.
212 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 54.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, and the more complete the manifestation of His enemy’s impotence. But in Moses it only raised once more, at this season of depression, the question …
213 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 55.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
“I am Jehovah and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob in El Shaddai (God Almighty), but as to My name Jehovah was I not known to them,” Such is the literal rendering, which in part may remove some of the difficulties.
214 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 55.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as Jehovah—the dealings by which, in the sight of all men, He made Himself known as such—belonged not to that, but to a later period. For the term “Jehovah” literally …
215 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 57.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… am Jehovah in the midst of the land.” If the first three plagues had shown the impotence of Egypt, the others proved that Jehovah reigned even in the midst of …
216 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 58.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
To show that Jehovah, He is God, that He was such in the midst of Egypt, and finally, that there was none like Him in the midst of all the earth—or, that Jehovah was the living and the true God—such was the threefold object of these “strokes.”
217 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 59.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… for Jehovah. And the Egyptians had to dig round about the river, that their drinking-water might be filtered for use. But “Pharaoh turned and went into his house …
218 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 61.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… was “Jehovah in the midst of the land” of Egypt ( 8:22 ). For the same reason, Moses and Aaron were not used as instruments in the fourth and fifth plagues. They were …
219 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 63.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah” ( 9:20 ) affords evidence of the spiritual effect of these “strokes.” Indeed Pharaoh himself now owned, “I have sinned this time” ( ver. 27 ). But this very limitation …
220 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 63.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… it! Jehovah be with you as I will let go you and your little ones. Look! for evil is before your faces” (i.e. your intentions are evil; or, perhaps, it may be rendered …