J N Darby on The Red Sea by Subject – the second subject in this series
· The Red Sea – JN Darby Bible Notes & Synopsis
· Israel’s Experience in the Red Sea
· The Red Sea and Wilderness and God’s Purpose
· Christian Teaching from the Red Sea
· Moses’ Song after the Red Sea
Notes
- Scripture quotations here are from the Darby Translation
- The notes are a combination of those from the 1890 and 1961 editions of the Darby Bible. Where notes refer to another scripture, the notes from that scripture are used. In many notes in the 1890 edition there is a list of which manuscripts (MSS) use which terms. These MSS have not been listed.
- The Synopsis has been slightly edited to simplify the English.
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| If death is our deliverance from all sin, we must taste it for our deliverance practically. The bitter water of Marah must be tasted when the salt waters of the Red Sea have delivered us from Egypt for ever and ever. Put the wood of the tree, the cross of Christ, into our cross, and all will be sweet. “Crucified” is terrible work — crucified with Christ, joy and deliverance; reproach is cruel — the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. But there are cases where the will and natural reluctance of the flesh to suffer are in question; there are also those which are characterized by the danger of positive evil working, as pride or vanity in the case of Paul. As to all, death must be tasted. The nothingness and incompetency of all flesh must be felt where it would be disposed to think itself competent. It must find its pretensions arrested and set aside when it has, or would be disposed to have, such; it must find itself consciously weak where it might hope to be strong or capable of something.
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JND Collected Writings Volume 7 (Doctrinal 2) p251
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