Even the self-same day—all the hosts of the Lord— Archbishop Usher supposes, that as this day of their Exodus was Abib 15th, or May 5th, of this year, so Abraham's coming out of Charran was Abib 15th of that year.
REFLECTIONS.—1. Moses embraces the favourable moment. The people march immediately, an immense body; besides a mixed multitude, who, from curiosity, or a conviction of the truth, went out with them. Note; In the church there is a mixed multitude of professors, but there are many Egyptians among them. 2. Observe the memorable night: just four hundred and thirty years from the date of the promise to Abraham. The Egyptians remembered this night to their sorrow, the Israelites with unspeakable joy in their future generations. If temporal deliverances are so worthy a memorial, how should we be affected with that eternal redemption, which Jesus has obtained for his faithful people, from a servitude more intolerable than Egyptian, into a country infinitely superior to Canaan!