The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-03
Explanations of Words and Phrases.

ssSPtutNstVNS " VUUS uibu Z HtScs.
/. made you. vi. He called Moses TO be
leader in the Exodus. Ex., 8: 7-10. So God was
back Of the rescue of the Israelites from Egypt
ian bondage.
2. Brought you. Il. Led you; gave you
guide in Moses; furnished you the cloud for
direction; gave you nourishmeut, etc.
3. Break covenant. V. 1. A covenant is an
agreement, promise. contract, regarded by God
as sacred, and. il violated. the failure to fulfill
is not due to God. We find the covenant in
Gen., 1877. 1t WAS a covenant good eyerlsst-
iugly.
4. Make no league. " Q. See Deu., z: 2.
The word there used is covenant. and it ex-
plains league. No treatise. no compromises, no
dealings, no intimacies, no marriages, were to
be tolerated
s. Throw down their affairs. w God had
told them to overthrow the affairs Of the Canaan
ties. We notice that oven heather people
had religious ideas, and many of them wor-
SHIPPED at affairs.
9. will not drive them out. %. Joshua
had expelled many. All could have been ex-
terminated. God will not act without co-opera-
tion of the human Whenever it is available,
and, if people will not join with God and do
their part God AZ rule permits them to su Ter
for their disobedience. Incidence, cowardice.
Notice, too. that whenever enemies were ex-
terminated, even when the IsTaelites did their
best, il was God who drove out the evil occu-
pants Of the territory.
Z. Thorns in your sides V. 3. Joshua (23: 49,
said They shall DO sCourges in your sides
aud thorns in your eyes" IDS horas" We
notice is printed in the Billie in italics the
words are supplied by the trausators The
words, as scourges. could as well have been
supplied, aud the third verse Of tho lesson and
JOSH, %: 10, would have agreed in this respect
The Revised Version adds, in the margin
Some ancient versions have shaHbe GdrgTSGrjes
uat0 y0H." Noses, in Nu 80 80, has. shall DO
rs pricks in your eyes and thorps in your sides."
Had the Israeltes driven ont the Canaanites
they would have escaped the harm to person
and estate. Had they well weedcd the land of
nOxiOaS in habitants, they would not have suffer
ed from the thorns The punishment Of the
Isracltcs was intense. ThOrns scourges, prCks,
traps. all these words imply great pain and an
noyance Specially prcks in the eyes give n
notion OF agony. One thing TO be considered
was the complete frankness with which Moses
and Joshua warned these very people of tho
terrible consequences of sin.
8. Snare unto you. V 3. See Ex 90: 49,
81 IL; Deu., z: Is; josh, %: I3 Ps-, 106 &c.
Notice traps" in JOSH, % 13.
9. Lifted up their voice. V. 4. They uttered
ordinations OF sorrow. They were so full of
apprehension that their tongues could not be
silent. Even the prospect of suffering seourges,
pricks ETC., set them into piercing cries of dis
tress.
10. WePt. VA. Tears express sorrow and
indicate repentance. How well founded in
sincere regret account of sin-how much re-
suited from mere fear Of punishment we can
not tell. The weeping gave name to the place
-Borhim, meaning the weepers.
IL. Sacrificed. V. ). The Jewish law re-
quired sinners to have recourse 10 o form of
atonement supposed TO be expressive of their
feelings--the sprinklinP of blood for the re-
mission of sins.
Conclusion.
God informs us of sins. We have
broken his laws. He took US ont from the
Egypt of iniquity, and led us into the Canaan
Of Christian experience. We have not sepa-
rated ourselves fully should have done !
from evil and evil persons We have suffered |
On account of neglect. Sin pierces US |
Satan scourges us-our eyes do not easily and |
clearly discern good from evil. The Holy |
Spirit chides us for our violation Of duty 70
iod, Christ, mankind, ourselves. We feel in
eusely our sinfulness. We cry TO God for |
mercy. We shed tears of repentance. We feel |
lie need of tho atonemant of Christ. And |
shat joy to to know he died for us. Nearby /
3nchim is Calvary. Our Joshua (Savior) died, |
'ut he rose again for our salvation. He is our
.eader yet. Let us away from idoatry, from
i! unholy alliances, from all apologies of sin.
II compromises with evil. Truly repent and
,hrist will forgive. Tears will be turned into
ongs of joy.