Exodus 13:17-18 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines… 1. God does not order salvation to His as it pleaseth man, but as it pleaseth Himself. 2. God in wisdom sometimes translates His Church from the house of bondage to a wilderness. 3. Wilderness and Red Sea paths, are the way of God's people here below. 4. God makes the way to rest not always straight, but to be about. 5. Israel, or God's people, go the round that God doth lead them. 6. Orderly and well instructed are the Church's motions under God in wilderness-ways. (G. Hughes, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: |
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