Preface

THE Exodus from Egypt is one of the most
conspicuous landmarks of the past; not only
because of its historical value, but because it
inaugurated a religious movement which is the

most important factor in our modern world.

The Exodus from Babylon has never succeeded in arousing equal interest, largely because it was more gradual and uneventful. Yet it was a marvellous episode, and bore upon its face the evident interposition of Jehovah on behalf of his people. Its results, which culminated in the advent of the Servant of the Lord, were in the

highest degree momentous.

The story of this Exodus is anticipated in chapters xl. to lv. of the Book of Isaiah, which form the subject of this volume. But the story of the Exodus itself is

subsidiary and introductory to another theme, which soon vi Preface.

absorbs our: attention. Before us pass, in vivid outlines, the scenes by which our redemption was secured. The humiliation and suffering, sorrow and anguish of soul, substitution and death, exaltation and satisfaction of the: Saviour are portrayed, with the minuteness and accuracy of a contemporary; and there is hardly a sentence from which we cannot begin and preach Jesus, as Philip did to the Ethiopian eunucn.