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- 404 We have now seen the condition of the toiling Hebrews in the years before they were set free. One or two things naturally suggested may be briefly indicated:
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406 1. The Hebrews learned something that was of use to them no doubt when they had to settle in Palestine. In the time of David they had brickkilns (2 Sam. xii. 31), and they forced on the Ammonites the very labors through
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409 which their fathers had gone, let us hope with less severity.
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411 2. God brings good out of evil. Goshen was the most inviting and fertile part of Egypt, so if all had gone smoothly with the Hebrews they would not have wished to carry out God's plan. Of this there is evidence enough. This Egyptian cruelty alienated them from the Egyptians, and made them willing to go.
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413 3. Few things of the kind are more remarkable than the confirmation of Bible history given by the researches of our own time in the lands of the Old Testament. Egypt, Assyria, and other lands are being explored, their monuments are being studied, their inscriptions are being translated, their manners and usages are being depicted, and the more we have of the results the clearer does it appear that the Scriptures are true to the truth of things in matters little and great as things existed when they were written. The outside evidence of the historic exactness of the books of Genesis and Exodus, for ex-
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415 ample, is vastly fuller and clearer to-day than when the New Testament was written. With many temptations to unbelief around us, we should be thankful for this aid to faith.
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