We learn from Holy Writ that the children of Gibeon sought life and league from the Jew when the Israelites held them in their power.

Moses controlled the Israelites because they venerated his wisdom and courage; Paul had the confidence of the infant churches because they saw his labors; Bernard swayed his darkened age by the moral power of learning and sanctity.

Airy refused absolutely to take part in the controversy, but he could not escape from the correspondence which the matter involved: and this led up to other points connected with the early history of the Israelites, a subject in which he took much interest.

1849 Nov. 10 On the Exodus of the Israelites.

1850 Mar. 15 On the Present State and Prospects of the R. Inst. Science of Terrestrial Magnetism. 1850 Mar. 16 On the Exodus of the Israelites Athenaeum. 1850 Mar. 30 On the Exodus of the Israelites.

1850 Mar. 15 On the Present State and Prospects of the R. Inst. Science of Terrestrial Magnetism. 1850 Mar. 16 On the Exodus of the Israelites Athenaeum. 1850 Mar. 30 On the Exodus of the Israelites.

There is more likeness than contrast between the way we English got our island and the way the Israelites got Canaan.

The Apostle of the Gentiles had the heart of a Jew: "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came."

The Israelites could not endure the voice and fire of Mount Sinai.

We have seen that the design of the miracles of Moses, as external performances, was not to instruct the Israelites in spiritual subjects, but to make them obedient subjects of a peculiar species of political state.

As these six hundred thousand were only the men "from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war," Ex. i. 45, 46; the whole number of the Israelites could not have been less than three millions and a half.

THE ISRAELITES UNDER THE BONDAGE OF EGYPT, ENJOYED ALL THESE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.

This regulation requiring the Israelites to "buy" servants of the heathen, prohibited their taking them without buying.

Of course the command to the Israelites to buy servants of the heathen, prohibited their getting them unless they first got somebody's consent to the transaction, and paid to somebody a fair equivalent.

This at least is plain, they were not Israelites, but heathen.

Ah! this then is the import of the Divine command to the Israelites.

The word "forever," instead of defining the length of individual service, proclaims the permanence of the regulation laid down in the two verses preceding, namely, that their permanent domestics should be of the Strangers, and not of the Israelites; it declares the duration of that general provision.

The inference is like unto it, viz., since the command forbade such outrages upon the Israelites, it permitted and commissioned their infliction upon the Strangers.

In all these respects, all classes of servants among the Israelites, formed but ONE CLASS.

This class consisted both of Israelites and Strangers.

This class also, consisted of Israelites and Strangers, the same difference in their kinds of employment as noticed before.

This word also came to me from Jehovah: Do thou, O man, take a stick, and write upon it, JUDAH AND THE ISRAELITES ASSOCIATED WITH HIM: then take another stick, and write upon it, JOSEPH, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ASSOCIATED WITH HIM.

And he said to me, O man, this is the place of my throne, and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites forever.

44:9-14] Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, 'No foreigner, consecrated neither in heart nor flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the Israelites, shall enter my sanctuary.

But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who took charge of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me fat and blood,' is the oracle of the Lord Jehovah.