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A48433 An handfull of gleanings out of the Book of Exodus probable solution of some of the mainest scruples, and explanation of the hardest places of that Booke ... / by John Lightfoot ... Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675. 1643 (1643) Wing L2055; ESTC R21590 43,133 64

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much Zipporah his wife was now lying in Childbed a weake woman but lately delivered and therefore farre unfit for so long a journey and the new-borne childe as unfit if not unfitter then she and yet Mother and child in this weake case must travell to the hazzard of both their lives for he durst not leave them behind him for feare he and they should never meete againe For this it is that Zipporah twice calleth him a bloudy husband before the childs circumcision and after before because he had hazzarded both their lives in bringing them forth both of them being in their blouth and blood and after because she through him was put to Circumcise the childe which bloodinesse a tender mother must needes abhorre and for this also is the word circumcisions in the plurall number vers. 26. A bloody husband Lemuloth because of the circumcisions SECT. IX Zipporah but very lately delivered of her childe THat Zipporah was so lately delivered of childe is plaine by observing these things First that Jethro her Father was circumcised both he and his houshold for he was a Midianite a Sonne of Abraham by Ke●●rah and all Abrahams children after the flesh were circumcised and that not by usurpation or unwarrantable imitation but by the bond and tye of the institution therefore though Moses had beene absent never so long or never so farre off yet would Jethro have taken care of the childs circumcision on the eight day but now the childe may not stay till hee bee eight dayes old whole againe upon his circumcision but must travell young and uncircumcised as he is Secondly observe the childs name which was usually given at Circumcision and if the child were older then we speake of then had he beene so long without a name or had had another name then Eliezer Thirdly he called his name Eliezer for the God of my fathers said he hath beene mine helpe and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh Chap. 18. 4. Now Moses was not secure of Pharaohs sword till just at his setting for Egypt For after he came from Horeb into Midian againe the Lord tells him that all those are dead which sought his life vers. 19. This doth aggravate his diffidence the more Who though he had seene such wonders at Horeb and heard of other wonders done for him by God in Egypt in cutting off his enemies there yet durst he not trust the promise of God for his returning to his wife and children but will take them along with him For this God brings him into danger of his life visibly which Zipp●rah poore woman thought to have beene for the uncircumcision of her Sonne therefore she taketh and circumciseth him but Moses being conscious of his owne infidelity or distrust in this so great a danger rubbeth up his faith againe and the perill refineth it as silver so that now he betaketh himselfe wholly to God by confidence in the promise and to expresse this his faith he calleth his Sonne when the mother had circumcised him Eliezer God is mine helper so that I shall escape danger from Pharaoh and the Aegyptians in this mine errand And the Lord saw his faith and let him goe SECT. X. Of the name Jehovah and how it was unknowne to the Fathers Exod. 6. 3. THis is the uncommunicable name of God not given at any time unto the Creature Esay 42. 8. This name in its sound and letters was knowne unto the Fathers yea even in its signification Abraham calls mount Moriah Jehovah Jireh Gen. 22. 14. Isaac called upon the name of Jehovah Chap. 26. 25. And Jacob saith Jehovah thy God hath brought it to me Chap. 27. 20. The name Jehovah signifieth three things First Gods eternall being in himselfe without dependence or mixture upon or with any other thing For his being undependent it is rendred the first and the last and which is and which was and which is to come For his being without mixture or composition it is said here {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Not By my name Jehovah was I knowne Nor My name Jehovah was knowne But My name Jehovah I was knowne to shew that God and his name are not two things united by composition but one and the same thing Secondly Jehovah betokeneth Gods giving of being to the Creature To this purpose it is observeable that God is never called Jehovah till all the Creation be perfected and every thing have received its being Gen. 2. 4. So in all the speeches that passe betweene Job and his friends God is never called Jehovah but once where mention is made of the Creatures receiving their being Job 12. 10. Thirdly Jehovah signifieth the faithfulnesse of God in his promise and in this sense it is rendred Amen true and faithfull In this sense it is set after so many commands Thou shalt or thou shalt not doe thus and thus I am Jehovah And in all these significations it is justly prefixed before all the Commandements Exod. 20. I am Jehovah thy God As this name is not communicable to any Cr●ature but onely appropriate to the God-head so it is severally given to every Person in the Trinity First to the Father Psal. 110. 1. For he is the fountaine of being in himselfe Secondly to the Sonne Jer. 23. 6. For he is the giver of being to the Cr●ature Thirdly to the Holy Ghost compare Esay 6. 8 9 10. with Act. 28. 25 26. For he is the Spirit of Truth and giver of being to the promise The name Jehovah and the significancy of it to the utmost did the holy Fathers know before Moses But they saw not experience of the last signification named namely the faithfulnesse of God in his promise made to Abraham concerning his delivery of his seed from bondage and bringing them into a Land flowing with milke and honey God gave them the promise by the name of El Shaddai God Omnipotent and they relyed upon his omnipotency because he that promised was able to performe but they beheld it afar of and tasted not of my p●rformance of it but now will I shew my selfe Jehovah faithfull to bring to passe and accomplish what I promised SECT. XI Putiel Exod. 6. 25. MAny and the most of them farre fetcht notations are given upon this name and when all is said of it that can be said the last resolution lyeth but in a conjecture and then may we guesse as well as others Eliezer marryed his wife in Aegypt and of the Aegyptian Idiom doth this name of her Father seeme as probably to sound as of any other Now among the Aegyptian names or titles these two things may be observed First That among them Gentry Nobility and Royalty seeme to have beene denoted and distinguished by these increasing Syllables Phar Phara and Phara? oh oh The Gentry by phar as Poti-phar a Captaine Gen. 41. 45. The Nobility by phara as Poti-phara a Prince Gen. 41 45. And Majesty by Phara-oh the common name of all their