The Globe-republican., 1894-06-08
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

-Passass Of the Red ses-Exodus
-: 1890.
Especially Arranged from Peloubets Notesl
GOLDEN TExE-By faith they passed through
the Red sea-
TINE-Accordirg to the common chronology.
b C. 1891: according to Brugsch, b C. l30a
They started on the morning of the 18th Of Abb
(sone time in April) The crossing Of the Red
sea was several days later
PLACE--The northern end Of the Red sea
The place may have been the present Gulf OF
Suez. or the sea may have extended much far
Their north. and the crossing have taken place
somewhere near the present Bitter lakes (see
below.)
THE PHARAOH OF THE Notwithstanding
to the majority Of Egyptoiogists, Menephtah
the son OF Rameses IL Menephtah lived years
after this: but ut was the army Of Pharaoh.
which Was overwhelmed; and neither here, nor
In the song Of Moses. Is any mention made OF
the kings death. an event Of su1acient conse.
luence to have been noticed The death Of
Pharaoh cannot be even argued from the ex.
preston in Ps. 1856: Is: He overthrow Pharaoh
monarch Is not the necessary consequence Of
his defeat and overthrow
LESSON NOTES.
l. The Israelites Urged to Coin
our last lesson the Israelites were bust
ly preparing for their departure. The
time had been set. The hour
had come. While they were still
engaged in celebrating their first Pass
over feast. at midnight the Lord smote
all the 6rstborn of Egypt, from the
6rstborn of Pharaoh, that sat upon the
throne, to the firstbOrn of the captive
that was in the dungeon (Ex. l2::229).
The last and greatest stroke had fallen.
The whole land of Egypt was now in
intense excitement. There was a
great cry. for there was not house
where there was not one dead. There
was no longer refusal of Moses re-
quest. On the contrary. Pharaoh could
not wait till morning before he sent to
Moses, and babe him be gone with all
the people.
The RendezvOus.-The first Journey
of the Israelites was from Rameses to
SuccOth (12: 81. These are not towns.
but districts. Rameses was 1.-The land
of Rameses," which is spoken of as
identical with Goshen, or at least with
the western portion of it. Itlay along
the Wady Tumilat. the line of the
present Sweetwater canal, and was
shaped like a cornucopia, with it's
broader end toward the Nile. From
all portions of the land this people as
sembled to SuccOth as their place of
rendezvous. SuccOth "a place of
tents or bOoths) was district mot a
town. lying at the eastern end of the
Wady Tumilat. along the line of the
0o1y LOT Il hvy
NJ. Naville, twelve miles west of Ismai-
liza, was probably the chief store city
lying on its western border.
Their Numbers.-There were GOO, 900
men, besides children, and a mixed
multitude Q2:37). This would natu-
rally imply about 10000 in all. But
Prof. Willis J. Beecher, of Auburn The
illogical seminary, in a lecture not long
ago, suggested that the enumeration
may have been technical. just as we
count an army. a regiment consists
of 1000 men. while often, in various
ways, not more than 400 or 500 are
present, and yet we call it a regiment
Six hundred thousand may be equiva-
lent to 600 regiments, 1.-The thousands"
containing but a few hundreds, SO that
there may not have been more than
500, 900 men, or a million in all. The
same reckoning is used in numbering
the houses in Philadelphia and other
cities.
The Pursuit by Pharaoh.-Several
days have now passed since the Israeli
ties. in an hour of great excitement,
were given their freedom. But soon
the labOrers were missed from their
places, the houses were empty, the
fields had no flocks, the public works
were stopped for want of bricks and
men to lay them. When, therefore,
Pharaoh saw that the Israelites had
turned back, as if afraid, and were
again in Egypt, he thought they were
confused and bewildered $50 the word
''entangled" 1873 means). and they
were in his power. because he held the
defenses of the great wall, which
reached to the impossible Red sea. He
therefore takes his six hundred chosen
chariots, and sets out to Overtake the
fugitives, ordering other chariots in diff
ferent parts of Egypt tof which Diodor-
us Siculus says that Rameses II. had
twenty-seven thOusand) to follow.
The Place of Crossing the Red Sea-
There have been many theories as to
the place where the Israelites crossed
the Red sea. But it is now almost GER
tain that either one or the other Of two
theories must be in the main correct.
% DIR. Trumbull has advanced some
most able arguments in favor of the
Gulf of Sucz. the place advocated by
many scholars. THE Israelites crossed
near the town of Suez, on extensive
shoals which run toward the southeast,
in the direction of Ayun Musa (the
Wells of MOses). The distance is about
three miles At high tide. This is the
most probable theory. Near here Ma
poleon. deceived by the tidal wave,
attempted to cross in 1899, and nearly
met the fate of Pharaoh" Niebuhr
crossed at this point in 1762, on q
dromedary. some Arabs, who were up
to their knees in water. accompanying
him On foot