Exodus, Matthew Henry

Exodus

 gives us, I. The accomplishment of the promises made before to Abraham (Exodus 1:1-19:25), and then, II. The establishment of the ordinances which were afterwards observed by Israel, Exodus 20:1-40:38 Moses, in this book, begins, like Cæsar, to write his own Commentaries; nay, a greater, a far greater, than Cæsar is here. But henceforward the penman is himself the hero, and gives us the history of those things of which he was himself an eye and ear-witness, et quorum pars magna fuit--and in which he bore a conspicuous part. There are more types of Christ in this book than perhaps in any other book of the Old Testament; for Moses wrote of him, John 5:46. The way of man's reconciliation to God, and coming into covenant and communion with him by a Mediator, is here variously represented; and it is of great use to us for the illustration of the New Testament, now that we have that to assist us in the explication of the old.