Exodus 2:22 And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. 1. The good man in this world is often lonely at heart. (1) When violence reigns unchecked. (2) When God's cause is in a depressed condition. (3) When repulsed in efforts to do good. (4) When severed from scenes of former labour. (5) When his outward lot is uncongenial. (6) When deprived of suitable companionships, and when he can find few to sympathise with him. 2. God sends to the good man alleviations of his loneliness. We may hope that Zipporah, if not without faults, formed a kind and helpful wife to Moses. Then, sons were born to him - the first, the Gershom of this text. These were consolations. A wife's affection, the prattle and innocence of children - have sweetened the lot of many all exile. Bunyan and his blind daughter. - J.O. Parallel Verses KJV: And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. |
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