The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-06-07
THE
PASSOVER
School Lesson Tor June s,iso7
Specially Prepared for This p,per.

Dry verses, rs. a.
GOLDEN TExT.-"when I see the
blood. I will pass over you."-Exodus
1918.
NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES
New Testament references to passover.
John 1:@: $3.50: I Cor. 5:6-s; Heb. s:l+:
u:2S. 1 Peter 1:is. 10.
TJME.-The plaques lasted nine or ten
months, from june to the following April
The Passover, our Easter time. was the
full moon Of the first month of the He
brew sacred year, Abb or Nissan, cor
responding to the last Of March and the
first OF April. The year Ussher) was b..
{. 1901; or about 1900 according to others.
Professor Price makes 1t 1916.
PLACE.-The meetings of Moses with
Pharaoh were at the capital, Zoan CTan-
is). or Memphis. The Passover was OBJ
! served in the land OF Goshen. In north
eastern Egypt.
THE PHARAOH was probably Meneph-
tah, son Of the powerful monarch. Raine-
ses II. The monuments of Egypt refer
to the death of a son OF Meneptah and
ominous uprisIngs in 1916 b. c.
Comment and Suggestive Thought
The Bible records fewer miracles
than most men think. They are
grouped in three great periods, each
a critical epoch especially requiring
divine interposition-the times OF
Moses, when the nation was to be de-
livared from bondage; the times OF
Elijah, when the authority of the
prophetic order was to be established
and the liberty Of the people defended
| against the kings; the times of Christ.
when the world was to be redeemed,
We study in this lesson the first of
these periods of miracles.
| RIA r-:-I - nI-- E~
7:14; 8:19. The plaques group them
selves in threes, gradually increasing
! in severity, for God gave Pharaoh
every chance to repent. The first
triad are plaques of l-oathsomeness.
not infiicting actual pain or injury to
life. Water into blood; frogs and lice.
The Second Triad Of PIagues.-Ex.
8: 20; 9:12. In this group Of plaques
the property of the Egyptians is in
land of Goshen, where the Hebrews
dwelt. is pointedly exempted from h
visitations; and Moses no longer
makes use of the rod, as II to show
that no magic virtue resides in that
piece of wood. Flies, murrain and
boils.
The Third Triad Of PIagues.-Ex-
9:13; 1929. In this series of plaques
"a new insect Of awfulness now APP
pears in the circumstance that the
physical agency is no longer Of local
o%rigination from within the land, but
comes from the general system Of the
world; as If there now had been an in
vasion of Egypt on the part of the IN
seen universe beyond 1t. The rod is
now acknowledgement. Hail; lo-
Gusts, and darkness follow in ominous
succession.
The Last Plague; Death Of the First
born-Exodus IL. Paraoh and his
people had been given every opportu-
nifty to- repent. Even the divine pa
thence had ceased to endure their hard
and cruel and deceitful hearts. The
final and decisive plague was noun
ed and described with accuracy; but
before its actual infiction several
days elapsed that the people of Israel
might be prepared for the exodus. One
important step was the asking mot
"borrowing"-see r. w of jewels.
the most easily carried form Of
wealth, from the Egyptians. 1t was
only right that the Hebrews should
have a little return for their long
services, and what their masters gave
them was far less than their due.
The institution of the Passover
Ex. 12:1-22, 1880. While the Israel
ties, protected by the effect of the
plaques were making preparations for
their departure, they we're also pre-
pairing Cor a great and beautiful cere-
mony. ordained by God, which should
at the anne time arouse their religi-
GUS feeling, and bind them together
more firmly as a nation. 1t extended
from the fourteenth to the twenty-first
day of the month Abb, afterwards
called Nissan. corresponding nearly to
the last half of March and the first
half of April. Hebrew months began
with the new noon, so that the Pass
over came always at the time best fer
travelling. the time of full moon. The
religious year began at this time: the
civil year began with the month Tisri,
including the last of September and
the first CT October.
"The Passover feast remains to this
day an enduring memorial Of the exo-
dus, inexplica5le except as the COM
memoration CT historical fact. and
testifying by its name to the nature
of the fact Observation-Disclosures.
son. Taken up into the Lords Sup
per. 1t Is celebrated all over the world
wherever Christians as well as Jews
y are found.
The awful stroke fell at midnight.
and Immediately the entire land was
filled with bitter anguish and with
terror. Pharaoh, whose own boy lay
dead, the heir to his throne. could not
wait for morning. but sent in the
night, praying the Hebrews to BE-
gone. and making no conditions.