According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous [things].
Ver. 15. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt] Here is a present and full answer to the Church's prayer; so ready is the Lord to fulfil the desires of the righteous. It is but ask and have; and they are worthily miserable that will not make themselves happy by asking. The sum of Christ's answer is this: As I led Joseph like a flock out of Egypt through the wilderness, and fed them there daily and daintily, with angels' food (never was prince so served in his greatest pomp), so will I show thee marvellous things at Babylon, and bring thee thence with a mighty hand, Ezekiel 20:34, to make me a glorious name, Isaiah 63:14, and both these deliverances shall be a most certain type of thy spiritual redemption by Christ. Lo, thus will I do for thee as in the days of old, Micah 7:14, and so fit mine answer, ad cardinem desiderii, give thee not only the desire of thine heart, but the request of thy lips, Psalms 21:2, let it be to thee even as thou wilt, Matthew 15:28 .