...and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet : there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them. " The taste of water, when nitrons or bitter, is modified by the addition of polenta, so much so as...

...cast into the waters, the wood thereof changed the whole stream from the former bitterness. Ibid. " There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them."] — There he in general gave them rules and advice of holy obedience before him, to prepare them for...

...and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet : eorge water, which was bitter or brackish, (Dr. Shaw says the latter,) was thus made sweet by the casting...

...suppose, the subject of one of the laws spoken of in the fifteenth chapter of Exodus, ver. 25 — " There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them." Bishop Patrick in his commentary on the verse, seems not unfavourable to this view, which, however,...

...only when they murmured npon finding the bitter waters of Marah they were turned back. " There he ma^t for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them." And the proof was that though they had seen the entire overthrow of all the host of Pharaoh yet they...

...; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters became sweet : there he made for them a statute, and an ordinance, and there he proved them."— Exodus xv, 24, 26. The chapter from which our text is selected has this peculiarity — that it contains...

...and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet : there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, Blessed Saviour ! the wood of thy how unpleasant a potion I find in this cross, that is, the application...

...and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet : there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them." Now mark, brethren, how ready the Lord was to hear and answer the prayer of His servant. He patiently...

...and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet; rumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shi>ll 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which...

...heard by Israel when they entered on their wilderness-sojourn and encamped at Marah. There Jehovah made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them and said, " IF thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which...